Best Buttermilk Birthday Cake

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

Ingredients

• Servings: 12
• 2 2/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1/4 cup butter, softened
• 1/4 cup butter flavor shortening (crisco)
• 2 eggs
• 2 tablespoons pure vanilla extract (i have also used vanilla, butter & nut extract for a richer flavor)
• 2 cups buttermilk

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350f and grease and flour 2 nine inch round cake pans.
• 2 in a medium bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt.
• 3 in a large bowl, beat the butter, shortening and sugar together and whip until creamy. do not overbeat.
• 4 beat in the eggs and the vanilla extract.
• 5 slowly add half of the flour mixture to the butter mixture and combine well.
• 6 add buttermilk and stir until combined.
• 7 add the remaining flour mixture and stir until all ingredients are well mixed. again, be careful not to overbeat.
• 8 pour into prepared pans.
• 9 reduce oven temp to 300 and bake for 40-50 minutes until cake is done in the middle.
• 10 cool and frost with your favorite icing.