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

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Cooking:

45 min.

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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.