Name: Aunt Mary's Delicious Bunny Cake
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: All-purpose flour - 3 cups; Baking powder - 1 ¾ teaspoons; Salt - 1 ¼ teaspoons; Milk at room temperature - 1 ⅓ cups; Lemon extract - 1 ½ teaspoons; Vanilla extract - 1 ¼ teaspoons; Orange extract - ¾ teaspoon; Unsalted butter at room temperature - 1 ⅛ cups; White sugar - 2 cups; Eggs at room temperature - 4; Vegetable shortening - ½ cup; Butter at room temperature - ½ cup; Confectioners' sugar - 4 cups; Milk at room temperature - 2 tablespoons; Clear vanilla extract - 1 teaspoon

Ingredients for - Aunt Mary's Delicious Bunny Cake

1. All-purpose flour 3 cups

2. Baking powder 1 ¾ teaspoons

3. Salt 1 ¼ teaspoons

4. Milk at room temperature 1 ⅓ cups

5. Lemon extract 1 ½ teaspoons

6. Vanilla extract 1 ¼ teaspoons

7. Orange extract ¾ teaspoon

8. Unsalted butter at room temperature 1 ⅛ cups

9. White sugar 2 cups

10. Eggs at room temperature 4

11. Vegetable shortening ½ cup

12. Butter at room temperature ½ cup

13. Confectioners' sugar 4 cups

14. Milk at room temperature 2 tablespoons

15. Clear vanilla extract 1 teaspoon

How to cook deliciously - Aunt Mary's Delicious Bunny Cake

1 . Stage

Place a rack into the lower third of oven.

2 . Stage

Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).

3 . Stage

Grease and flour a cake mold pan (such as a bunny cake or train cake mold) using vegetable shortening.

4 . Stage

Sift flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl.

5 . Stage

Mix 1 1/3 cup milk, lemon extract, 1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract, and orange extract in a separate bowl.

6 . Stage

Beat unsalted butter in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until butter is creamy and smooth, 1 to 2 minutes. Beat in white sugar and continue beating until the mixture is light and fluffy, about 5 more minutes. Scrape the sides of the bowl occasionally.

7 . Stage

Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating each egg in thoroughly before adding the next.

8 . Stage

Reduce mixer speed to low and beat in flour mixture in several additions, alternating with milk mixture; begin and end with flour mixture. Do not overbeat. Scrape bowl occasionally.

9 . Stage

Pour batter evenly into prepared cake pan.

10 . Stage

Bake in the preheated oven until lightly browned and a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean, 30 to 45 minutes.

11 . Stage

Place cake in pan on a wire rack and allow to cool for 15 minutes before inverting pan to remove cake. Allow cake to completely cool on wire rack, 3 to 4 hours.

12 . Stage

Beat vegetable shortening, 1/2 cup butter, confectioners' sugar, 2 tablespoons milk, and 1 teaspoon clear vanilla extract in a bowl until frosting is smooth and creamy.

13 . Stage

Pack the frosting into a heavy resealable plastic bag; force the frosting into one corner of the bag. Clip a small corner off the plastic bag, seal the bag, and pipe the frosting onto the cooled cake in desired pattern.