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    Heavy Hedonist could you please post your recipe of yellow cake?

    Some time ago you shared a recipe for yellow cake, which calls for white wine. I tried it and it was per-fect for strawberry shortcake.
    Could you please post it again?
    I cannot find it with the search function. Morever, someone else could be interested. TIA!!!

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    is this it? I did a search for you...

    The Silver Palate's Favorite Yellow Cake

    2 C sugar
    4 eggs
    1 C Veg. oil*
    1 C dry white wine**
    2 1/2 C flour
    1/2 tsp salt
    2 1/4 tsp baking powder
    1 tsp vanilla extract

    1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. grease & flour 2 9-inch round cake pans, or 13X9 pan, or 12 muffin cups.

    2. Beat sugar & eggs together with electric mixer for 30 seconds on medium speed. Add remaining ingredients; beat for 1 minute.

    3. Pour batter into prepared pans, set on middle rack of oven & bake for 30 minutes, or till cake has pulled away from sides of pan and knife inserted in center comes out clean. ( I always use the "spring" test)

    4. Let cakes cool in pans 5 minutes, then turn out onto wire rack to cool completely. Good room temp or chilled with your choice of icing or plain.


    * I often replace the oil with 1 stick of melted butter (less fat, but a richer one) and it works fine.

    **I sometimes replace the wine with an equal amount of buttermilk with a squirt of fresh lemon.

    The taste varies with the wine you choose. This recipe is no fail, easy and just plain great. There's a reason it's in two cookbooks, and it will be reprinted with permission in my first cookbook, too.

    --mari

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lorena View Post
    Some time ago you shared a recipe for yellow cake, which calls for white wine. I tried it and it was per-fect for strawberry shortcake.
    Could you please post it again?
    I cannot find it with the search function. Morever, someone else could be interested. TIA!!!
    Is this what you are looking for?

    The Silver Palate's Favorite Yellow Cake

    2 C sugar
    4 eggs
    1 C Veg. oil*
    1 C dry white wine**
    2 1/2 C flour
    1/2 tsp salt
    2 1/4 tsp baking powder
    1 tsp vanilla extract

    1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. grease & flour 2 9-inch round cake pans, or 13X9 pan, or 12 muffin cups.

    2. Beat sugar & eggs together with electric mixer for 30 seconds on medium speed. Add remaining ingredients; beat for 1 minute.

    3. Pour batter into prepared pans, set on middle rack of oven & bake for 30 minutes, or till cake has pulled away from sides of pan and knife inserted in center comes out clean. ( I always use the "spring" test)

    4. Let cakes cool in pans 5 minutes, then turn out onto wire rack to cool completely. Good room temp or chilled with your choice of icing or plain.


    * I often replace the oil with 1 stick of melted butter (less fat, but a richer one) and it works fine.

    **I sometimes replace the wine with an equal amount of buttermilk with a squirt of fresh lemon.

    The taste varies with the wine you choose. This recipe is no fail, easy and just plain great. There's a reason it's in two cookbooks, and it will be reprinted with permission in my first cookbook, too.

    --mari
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    Thanks so much, Erin, this is the recipe!! Sorry, I could not find it!
    Just to add, and if somebody wants to try it, I did it using butter, not oil. I will try using half and half too (half butter, half oil!).
    Thanks again!

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    thank you, friends, for coming to Lorena's aid-- i have been in recovery from a long in-laws visit all week and have stayed offline. hope the cake works nice for your purposes--

    i should add, this is the ideal cake to pour over pineapple and the usual toppings for pineapple upside-down cake. it's great in my cast-iron skillet!

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