Cake Recipes
Buttery Cinnamon Cake
Ingredients
Cake
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 2/3 cup shortening
- 1 1/3 cups granulated sugar
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 3 eggs
- 2/3 cup milk
Cinnamon Syrup
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup + 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/3 cup water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Grease and lightly flour a 10-inch fluted tube pan.
Cake
- Stir together the flour, baking powder, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon and salt.
- Beat shortening until light and fluffy.
- Add 1 1/3 cups granulated sugar and 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract. Continue beating until fluffy.
- Add eggs one at a time, beating for at least 1 minute after each addition.
- Add flour mixture and milk alternately to egg mixture, beating after each addition.
- Pour batter into prepared pan.
- Bake for 40 minutes.
- Remove cake from oven and let cool in pan for 10 minutes before turning out.
- After removing cake from pan and while it is still warm poke holes around top of the cake with a fork. Pour warm Cinnamon Syrup into the holes and onto the top and sides of the cake.
- Sprinkle with confectioners' sugar.
Cinnamon Syrup
- In a saucepan combine all syrup ingredients. Heat and stir until butter melts. DO NOT BOIL.
- Pour syrup over cake while it and the cake are still warm.