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1½ cups cake flour or 1¼ cups all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp salt
¾ cup milk
1/3 cup shortening
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla


Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour square pan, 8 x 8 x 2 inches or 9 x 9 x 2 inches. Measure all ingredients into large mixer bowl. Blend ½ minute on low speed, scraping bowl constantly. Beat 3 minutes high speed scraping bowl occasionally. Pour into pan.

Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool on cooling rack. If desired frost cake with your favorite icing or make it into a strawberry shortcake.

NOTE: My mother-in-law uses this recipe to make her upside-down blueberry cake. In a cake pan, she puts a few cups of blueberries mixed with a couple tablespoons of Minute Tapioca (to thicken the fruit juices), then pours the cake batter on top, then bakes it. It's very good!