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1-2-3-4 cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
1 c. butter
2 c. sugar
3 c. flour
4 tsp. baking powder
¼ tsp salt
4 eggs, separated (beat the egg whites to soft peaks)
Vanilla and almond extract*
About 1.5 c. milk

* if someone in your family does not like the taste of almond or has nut allergies, substitute a flavour of your choice
Directions:
Directions:
Cream butter, sugar and egg yolks. Add dry ingredients and mix well. Add vanilla and almond extracts to taste. Add milk. Lastly, add the egg whites, folding into batter.

Grease a 9”x13” cake pan. 350⁰ for about 50 minutes. Round layer cake pans – about 35 min. When cooled, run a knife around edge of pan and turn cake out onto serving plate. Buttercream icing goes very well with this cake.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This is a beautiful thick and heavy white cake, closer to a pound cake than a commercial or packaged cake mix – it showed up at every birthday dinner in our home when I was growing up !

 

 

 

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