By Good Housekeping
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Moderate
Ingredients
- 2 c. all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- ¼ tsp. salt
- ¾ c. whole milk
- 1½ tsp. vanilla extract
- 1¼ c. sugar
- ¾ c. butter or margarine
- 3 large eggs
Directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 13" by 9" metal baking pan, or three 8-inch round or two 9-inch round cake pans. Dust pan(s) with flour.
- On waxed paper, combine flour, baking powder, and salt. In cup, mix milk and vanilla; set aside.
- In large bowl, with mixer at low speed, beat sugar and butter just until blended. Increase speed to high; beat 3 minutes or until creamy, occasionally scraping bowl with rubber spatula. Reduce speed to low; add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Beat in flour mixture alternately with milk mixture, beginning and ending with flour mixture just until blended, scraping bowl occasionally.
- Pour batter into prepared pan(s). Bake 40 to 45 minutes for 13" by 9" cake, 23 to 25 minutes for 8- and 9-inch layers, or until toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean. Cool in the pan(s) on wire rack 10 minutes. With knife, loosen side of cake(s) from pan(s); invert onto wire rack to cool completely.
