Starlight Yellow Cake

Starlight Yellow Cake

Ingredients:
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour*
1 1/2 cups sugar
1/2 cup shortening
1 1/4 cups milk
3 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
3 large eggs
2 1/4 cups Chocolate Buttercream Frosting -- (see recipe), if

Directions:
desired
OR
2 1/4 cups Peanut Butter Buttercream Frosting -- (see recipe), if
desired
Heat oven to 350º. Grease bottom and sides of rectangular pan, 13 × 9 × 2
inches, 2 round pans, 9 × 1 1/2 inches, or 3 round pans, 8 × 1 1/2 inches,
with shortening; lightly flour.
Beat all ingredients except Chocolate Buttercream Frosting with electric
mixer on low speed 30 seconds, scraping bowl constantly. Beat on high
speed 3 minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Pour into pan(s).
Bake rectangle 40 to 45 minutes, 9-inch rounds 30 to 35 minutes, 8-inch
rounds 20 to 25 minutes, or until toothpick inserted in center comes out
clean or until cake springs back when touched lightly in center. Cool
rectangle in pan on wire rack. Cool rounds 10 minutes; remove from pans to
wire rack. Cool completely.
Frost rectangle or fill and frost layers with Chocolate Buttercream
Frosting.
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Please note, if you should change this recipe it will no longer be an
approved Betty Crocker® Recipe.
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