Basic yellow cake

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       Title: Basic Yellow Cake
  Categories: Cakes
       Yield: 10 servings
  
       1 c  Shortening
       2 c  Sugar
       4    Eggs
       3 c  Cake flour; sifted
   2 1/2 ts Baking powder
     1/2 ts Salt
       1 c  Milk
       1 ts Almond extract
       1 ts Vanilla extract
  
   Recipe by: Southern Living
   Preparation Time: 0:15
   Cream shortening; gradually add sugar, beating well at
   medium speed of an electric mixer.  Add eggs, one at a
   time, beating well after each addition. Combine flour,
   baking powder, and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately
   with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture.  Mix
   after each addition.  Stir in flavorings. Pour batter into
   3 greased and floured 9-inch round cakepans.  Bake at 375
   degrees for 20 to 25 minutes or until a wooden pick
   inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10
   minutes; remove from pans, and let cool completely on wire
   racks.  Frost as desired.  Yield:  one 3-layer cake.
   
   YELLOW CUPCAKES: Spoon batter into paper-lined muffin pans,
   filling each cup half full.  Bake at 375 degrees for 20
   minutes.  Remove from pans, and let cool on wire racks.
   Frost as desired.  Yield:  3 dozen.
  
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