Ma's One Egg Cake

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• 1 3/4 cups flour
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup butter flavor shortening
• 2/3 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/3 cup milk
• 1 egg

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 350 degrees fahrenheit.
• 2 grease and flour a 9 inch x 9 inch pan.
• 3 sift dry ingredients together.
• 4 add shortening, the 2/3 cup milk, and the vanilla; beat for 2 minutes.
• 5 add the 1/3 cup milk and egg; beat for 2 more minutes.
• 6 pour into prepared pan.
• 7 bake for about 45-50 minutes or until done. you might check a little earlier because my oven runs cool. if doubling or tripling the recipe, you'll have to increase the cooking time substantially.
• 8 upside down cake:.
• 9 if making pineapple upside down cake, use the strained juice in the batter, reducing the milk by the amount of juice used.
• 10 drop pieces of butter and sprinkle brown sugar on pan.
• 11 lay pineapple rings down.
• 12 pour cake batter on top.