Milk Chocolate Cake

I know it is easy to run to the store and grab a cake mix, but you just can't beat some of these old fashioned recipes. My grandmother made the most amazing milk chocolate cake. This is her recipe.

Grandma's Milk Chocolate Cake

• 1/2 cup shortening
  
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
  
• 2 eggs
  
• 1 cup sour milk (add 1T vinegar to make milk sour)
  
• 2 cups sifted cake flour
  
• 1/2 cup cocoa
  
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
  
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
  
• 1 Tablespoon vinegar mixed with 1 teaspoon baking soda

Cream shortening and add sugar gradually.
Add 1 egg and mix well.
Add the other egg and beat for two minutes.
Mix the cocoa, salt, and baking powder into the flour.
Alternately add the flour mixture and milk to the shortening mixture.
Add the vanilla.
Add the baking soda that has been dissolved in vinegar.

Pour in two greased 8" layer pans and bake at 375 degrees for 25-30 minutes or when toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.

Please let me know what you think of Grandma's Milk Chocolate Cake.

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