Okay I need some advice... I used the recipe for the 8 ingredient yellow cake on the cc site and it calls for all shortening, 1 cup to be exact. When I baked my test cake tonight and tasted it I was not in love with the flavor, it was kind of blah and crisco like, for lack of a better word. I was wondering if I could use 1/2 a cup of butter and 1/2 a cup of shortening instead of all shortening. Will it change the crisco flavor which I am not fond of. Also if I do this do I need to modify the recipe in any other way? Does anyone have any ideas on how to give this cake a better taste?

Thanks

I haven't made this cake, but I do use real butter in scratch cake recipes that have called for shortening with great results and the butter gives great flavor.
HTH, a little!

Thank you i am going to try all butter. Do I have to change anything else about the recipe or the bake time?

you can use all butter....it should be ok...i only use butter in my baking...i use the shortening in my icing recipe...1/2 and 1/2