Four Egg Yellow Cake

This is our favorite yellow cake recipe. I usually don’t get to put any icing on before it is gone.

Four Egg Yellow Cake

Ingredients

  • 1 cup shortening
  • 2 cups white sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 3 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 3/4 cups milk

Instructions

1 Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour one 9 x 13 inch pan.

2 Cream together shortening and sugar. Beat in eggs and vanilla.

3 In a separate bowl, combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Add to creamed mixture alternately with milk. Mix well. Pour batter into prepared pan.

4 Bake for 45 minutes, or until cake tests done. Cool.