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Make a Easy Cake Recipes

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Here's some quick and easy cake recipes for a basic yellow or white cake. Also see Birthday Cake Ideas and Valentines Day Cake Ideas and the page for Chocolate cake Recipes.

Before you have cake troubles read this Cake Baking troubleshooter.

White or Yellow Cake

Easy Yellow Cake

1/3 cup shortening
3/4 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 1/2 cup flour
3 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla

Cream shortening, sugar, and eggs together. Mix and sift flour, baking powder and salt. Add alternately with the milk to the first mixture. Add vanilla and beat thoroughly. Bake in 2 greased layer cake pans at 400 for 25 minutes. Cool
Recipe from a 1953 cookbook

For a white cake... leave out the yolks.

Easy Yellow Cake

Making a cake2 eggs beaten
1/8 tsp salt
1 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
1 cup flour
1 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cup hot water
1 Tblsp butter

Beat eggs 5 minutes, adding salt, beat in sugar and vanilla, Sift flour and baking powder together, and add. Melt butter in hot water and add. Use an angel food cake tin. Bake at 350 till done.
Recipe from a 1953 cookbook

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Here's the recipes for Sheet Cakes!

Pineapple Sheet Cake Recipe

2 eggs
4 cups flour
2 cups sugar
2 teaspoons soda
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 can crushed pineapple

Combine all ingredients in a large mixing bowl, Beat well Pour batter into a greased 15x10x1 inch pan Bake at 350 for 25 minutes
Cool in pan until slightly warm then top with frosting.

Frosting:
8 oz cream cheese softened
1/2 cup butter softened
1 cup sifted powdered sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla

Combine all ingredients in a medium size mixing bowl,
beat well till smooth. Spread over warm pineapple cake.

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Here's a White Texas Sheet cake recipe

Queen Elizabeth's Cake Recipe is baked in a 9x13 pan.

Pie Cake Recipe - This recipe has been in the family for 40 years! Simple to make!


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Here's a variety of more Cake Recipes from my old church cookbooks!

Georgia Bachlors Cake has no flour in it! It's made with coconut, eggs and crushed vanilla wafers.

Tomato Soup Cake - Interesting name! It has a Cream Cheese frosting!

Red Beet Cake - If you love beets, you just have to try this!

Orange Bundt Cake - Loaded with raisins and oranges, made in a tube pan.

- Also see Mandarin Orange Cake

- This Mocha Marvel recipe is another cake made in a tube pan

- Here's a cake called a Hummingbird Cake. It has crushed pineapple and bananas in it.

- Do you like Heath Toffee Bars? Here's a cake recipe called a Heath Bar Cake

- Fruit Cocktail Cake from scratch! Here's the Fruit Cocktail cake recipe and here's the topping for the Fruit Cocktail cake. It makes a large loaf cake/

- This next cake recipe is made with Black Walnuts and is called an Ozark Nut Cake.

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Coffee Cakes! As good as their name... with a cup of coffee!

One Egg Coffee Cake - recipe with broiled topping. A Martha Gooch recipe.

Mama's Jam Cake - an oldie but goldie!


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