Buttery Cinnamon Cake

Total Time: 55 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 14
• 2 cups flour
• 1 tablespoon baking powder
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 2/3 cup shortening
• 1 1/3 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
• 3 eggs
• 2/3 cup milk
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 6 tablespoons butter
• 1/3 cup water
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2 grease and lightly flour one 10 inch fluted tube pan.
• 3 stir together the flour, baking powder, 1 tsp.
• 4 ground cinnamon and salt.
• 5 beat shortening until light and fluffy.
• 6 add 1 1/3 cups sugar, and 1 1/2 tsp.
• 7 vanilla.
• 8 continue beating until fluffy.
• 9 add eggs one at a time beating for at least 1 minute after each egg.
• 10 add flour mixture and milk alternately to egg mixture, beating after each addition.
• 11 pour batter into prepared pan.
• 12 bake at 350 degrees for 40 minutes.
• 13 remove cake from oven and let cool in pan for 10 minutes before turning out.
• 14 after removing cake from pan and while it is still warm poke holes around the top of the cake with a fork.
• 15 pour the warm cinnamon syrup into the holes and onto the top and sides of the cake.
• 16 sprinkle with confections sugar.
• 17 to make cinnamon syrup: in a saucepan combine 1/2 cup sugar, the butter, water, 1 tsp.
• 18 vanilla and 3/4 tsp.
• 19 ground cinnamon.
• 20 heat and stir until butter melts.
• 21 do not boil!
• 22 pour syrup over cake while it and the cake are still warm.