Instructions

• Step 1: Preheat oven Preheat your oven to 350 degrees. Then grease and flour the pan and set it aside.
• Step 2: Mix together Use your mixer to cream the butter and shortening together in one of the mixing bowls.
• Step 3: Add ingredients Slowly add the sugar. Then add the eggs, one at a time, mixing after each one.
• Step 4: Stir ingredients Mix the flour, salt, and baking powder in the other bowl. Slowly stir this mixture into the butter mixture, alternating with adding the milk.
• TIP: Begin and end with the flour mixture, adding milk in between.
• Step 5: Add vanilla Add the vanilla extract and mix well. Then pour the batter into the pan and bake for 60 to 90 minutes.
• Step 6: Insert toothpick Insert a toothpick into the center of the cake. When it comes out clean, the cake is done.
• Step 7: Cool pan Allow the pan to cool for 10 minutes. Then slice the cake and top it with whipped cream and your favorite fruit.
• FACT: Vanilla is one of the most expensive crops to produce because of the labor-intensive cultivation and curing processes.

You Will Need

• u00bd lb. butter
• plus more for pan
• 3 c. all purpose flour
• plus more for pan
• u00bd c. vegetable shortening
• 3 c. sugar
• 5 eggs
• u00bd tsp. fine salt
• u00bd tsp. baking powder
• 1 c. milk
• 1 tsp. vanilla extract
• Whipped cream
• Fruit
• 10-inch Bundt pan
• Mixer