Gold cake

Good Eats Gold Cake

This is a great, simple cake. Can be turned in to a lot of other cakes.

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup butter flavored shortening
• 1.25 cups sugar
• 2.5 cups cake flour
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 1/4 tsp salt
• 8 egg yolks, beaten
• 3/4 cups milk
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 tsp lemon zest

Prep

• Preheat to 350
• Sift baking powder and flour
• Grease two 9" pans with shortening, then coat in flour

Process

• Stir shortening on low for 1 minute
  • Add sugar and salt, up to medium and stir for 4 minutes
  • Add eggs 1 at a time
  • Alternate adding the rest of the dry and wet ingredients

Evenly add to pans

• Bake for 18-20 minutes
• Cool in pan 15 minutes, then completely on rack

Modifications

• To make a strawberry cake, add 1.5 cups of pureed frozen strawberries to the batter, reduce half the milk and add 1/4 cup more flour
  • Make strawberry icing for the cake too