Recipe of the Week: Grandma's Buttermilk Yellow Cake (2024)

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You won't find a better from-scratch, yellow cake recipe than this. It is also known as the One-Two-Three-Four Cake. Take a look at the ingredients, and you'll see why.

• 1 cup Crisco or other good shortening

• 2 cups sugar

• 4 eggs (at room temperature)

• 3 cups all-purpose flour

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• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder

• 1/2teaspoon baking soda

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 1/4 teaspoon ground mace

• 1 cup buttermilk

• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease and flour 3 9-inch cake pans, a 10-inch tube pan, muffin tins or an 11x17-inch sheet cake pan.

Sift together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and mace. Set aside.

With an electric mixer, cream the shortening and sugar for 5 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

Beginning and ending with dry ingredients, add the dry ingredientsto creamed mixture alternately with buttermilk and vanilla. Pour into the prepared pan.

For cake pans: Bake at 350° for 25 to 30 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Allow to cool for 10 minutes, theninvert onto wire racks to finish cooling.

Buttermilk Yellow Cake Notes

In the above photo for this cake, we also used Pineapple Filling, a delicious addition to this cake, and the always dependable, always delicious Cream Cheese Frosting. The serving dishes in our photograph are Fiesta dinnerware.

Kitchen tools you'll need:9-inch Cake Pans or 10-inch Tube Pan or Muffin Tins, Electric Mixer, Mixing Bowls, Rubber Spatula, Sifter, Wire Cooling Racks

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