1-2-3-4 cake

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       Title: 1-2-3-4 CAKE
  Categories: Cakes
       Yield: 9 Servings
  
       4 ts Baking powder
       3 c  Cake flour; sifted
     1/2 ts Salt
       1 c  Unsalted butter; room temper
       2 c  Sugar
       4    Eggs; separated
       1 ts Vanilla
       1 c  Milk
  
   Recipe by: Los Angeles Times - Prodigy In medium work bowl combine baking
   powder, flour and salt. Mix together. Beat butter until light and fluffy.
   Add sugar and beat again until very fluffy and light-yellow. Add egg yolks
   and beat in briefly. Add 1 teaspoon vanilla and mix well. Add half of flour
   and lightly stir in. Add half of milk and lightly stir in. Sift over rest
   of flour mixture and stir, then add rest of milk and stir. Beat egg whites
   until soft peaks form. Add 1/3 whites to batter and gently stir in. Pour
   remainder of whites over batter and fold in gently. Divide batter between 2
   buttered and floured 8- or 9-inch cake pans. Bake at 350 degrees about 25
   minutes or until wood pick inserted in center comes out clean. Remove from
   oven and cool on rack. Ice cake as desired. Makes about 9 servings.
   
   By Karen Stabiner Copyright Los Angeles Times
  
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