Ingredients
- 2 sticks (16 tablespoons) unsalted butter, at 70 degrees, plus much more for that Bundt pan
- 3 cups cake flour (not self-rising) or all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon fine ocean salt
- 3 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup vegetable shortening, at 70 degrees
- 1 cup dairy, at 70 degrees
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla flavoring
- 5 large eggs, at 70 degrees
- 1/2 teaspoon almond extract, optional
Directions
Preheat the oven to 300 levels F. Generously grease a sizable (10-inch) Bundt pan with butter and hang aside.
Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt inside a medium bowl and hang aside. Within the bowl of the electric mixer fitted having a paddle attachment, cream together the butter, sugar and vegetable shortening until light and fluffy. Inside a large liquid calculating cup, combine the milk, vanilla, eggs and almond extract if using. Stir to mix. Add some flour mixture and milk mixture towards the butter mixture, alternating between your dry and wet ingredients in three parts, beginning and ending using the dry. Fill the prepared pan using the batter .
Bake for fifteen minutes. Boost the oven temperature to 325 levels F and bake before the cake is warm golden brown and pulls from the sides from the pan, or perhaps a tester placed within the center arrives clean, yet another forty-five minutes. Remove to some rack to awesome for ten minutes. Invert the wedding cake onto a rack to awesome completely, a minimum of twenty minutes.
Recipe thanks to Virginia Willis
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