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      Title: Basic Yellow Cake
 Categories: Cakes
      Yield: 10 servings
 
      1 c  Shortening
      2 c  Sugar
      4    Eggs
      3 c  Cake flour; sifted
  2 1/2 ts Baking powder
    1/2 ts Salt
      1 c  Milk
      1 ts Almond extract
      1 ts Vanilla extract
 
  Recipe by: Southern Living
  Preparation Time: 0:15
  Cream shortening; gradually add sugar, beating well at
  medium speed of an electric mixer.  Add eggs, one at a
  time, beating well after each addition. Combine flour,
  baking powder, and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately
  with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.  Mix
  after each addition.  Stir in flavorings. Pour batter into
  3 greased and floured 9-inch round cakepans.  Bake at 375
  degrees for 20 to 25 minutes or until a wooden pick
  inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10
  minutes; remove from pans, and let cool completely on wire
  racks.  Frost as desired.  Yield:  one 3-layer cake.
  
  YELLOW CUPCAKES: Spoon batter into paper-lined muffin pans,
  filling each cup half full.  Bake at 375 degrees for 20
  minutes.  Remove from pans, and let cool on wire racks.
  Frost as desired.  Yield:  3 dozen.
 
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