yellow cake

4 large eggs
1/2 cup milk
2 tsp vanilla
2 1/4 cups cake flour
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 tsp baking powder
3/4 tsp salt
1/2 lb unsalted butter, softened

Oven 350. (Or preferably, 335 on quick bake.) Grease cake pans and coat with sugar.

In a medium bowl, combine eggs, milk and vanilla. Beat with a whisk until combined.

Using the paddle attachment, combine dry ingredients in a mixing bowl, and mix on low for 30 seconds. With the mixer running at the lowest speed, add the butter in 1-Tbsp chunks, one at a time. Mix until butter is in pea-size pieces. Add 1 cup egg mixture, speed up the mixer and beat till fluffy, about 1 minute. Scrape down the sides of the bowl, add the remaining egg mixture and beat on mid-high speed for about 15 seconds, or till thoroughly mixed.

Divide batter between 2 cake pans, spread & smooth out, and bake 20-25 mins or until a fork inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on racks 5-10 minutes, then invert and remove from cake pans. Cool thoroughly before frosting.

Frosting

1 stick butter, softened
3-4 Tbsp milk
1/2 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 lbs confectioners sugar
2-3 Tbsp cocoa powder (optional)

Using the whisk attachment, combine the butter, milk and vanilla and beat. Add half the confectioners sugar and mix on high until incorporated. Gradually add more confectioners sugar until the frosting is the desired consistency. It should be soft enough to spread but not so soft that it will drip down the cake.

MAKE SURE YOU DON’T UNDERCOOK IT.
You’ll know when you’ve undercooked it because you’ll have to pick it up with 2 spatulas.Also make sure you make the frosting thick enough.
I made this as my mom’s cake and half the frosting is chocolate and the other half is vanilla with her favorite color
(Purple)food coloring.Do you think she’ll like it?

Sugar Cookies by KT

2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 cups white sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). In a small bowl, stir together flour, baking soda, and baking powder. Set aside.
In a large bowl, cream together the butter and sugar until smooth. Beat in egg and vanilla. Gradually blend in the dry ingredients. Roll rounded teaspoonfuls of dough into balls, and place onto ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until golden. Let stand on cookie sheet two minutes before removing to cool on wire racks.

I found it was best to cook them until the edges started to turn brown,which was about 11 minutes.If you like them chewy,cook them less than that.This recipe is really tasty,but make sure you soften the butter for 15 secs.

I made these for a school project.We would each be given a book(by chance my best friend was in my group)and
as we read the book we would do a bunch of stuff like vocabulary words that they assumed we didn’t know. At the end,we would do these packets all about our books and then we would pick a project to do. I picked to cook a food in the book. Sugar cookies were the only food in my book, but they called them shrewsbury cakes.