1-2-3-4 Cake

Total Time: 1 hr 40 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 8
• 1 cup butter (real butter, do not substitute or change the amount)
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 cups flour (gold medal kitchen tested enriched)
• 4 large eggs
• 1 cup milk
• 2 teaspoons baking powder (calumet)
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract

Recipe

• 1 cream butter and sugar until very pale yellow.
• 2 beat at high speed until grain is gone.
• 3 then add egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
• 4 add vanilla; beat well.
• 5 sift dry ingredients three times and add alternately with milk, just until mixed.
• 6 in a separate bowl beat egg whites until stiff.
• 7 gently fold in stiffly beaten egg whites.
• 8 grease small angel food pan with crisco or margarine.
• 9 bake at 325 f, approximately 1 hours 10 minutes.
• 10 when cake in done, it bounces back when pressed.
• 11 cool upside down on cake rack.
• 12 run knife around edges of pan to loosen.
• 13 optional:.
• 14 if you have a lemon, it is very good with the grated zest of the lemon added to the batter.