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Funeral Cake

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Time: 1 hour 20 minutes

Yield: 20 servings

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When times are tough for you or your loved ones, a touch of sweetness can bring relief and a little brightness. Funeral Cake is an elegant, tender, and buttery confection infused with bright citrus flavors to help brighten everyone's spirits. With a smooth, tangy glaze overtop, Funeral Cake will encourage everyone to smile and remember the good times, even through the bad ones. It's amazing what a little cake can do.

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Ingredients

  • For the cake:
  • 3 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1 cup all-vegetable shortening
  • 4 large eggs
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • 1/2 teaspoon lemon extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon orange extract
  • For the glaze:
  • 2 cups powdered sugar, sifted
  • 1 tablespoon butter
  • 1-2 tablespoons milk
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon, orange, or vanilla extract

Directions

Step 1 -Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.

Step 2 -Grease and flour a 10-inch bundt cake pan.

Step 3 -In a medium bowl, combine the flour, salt, and baking powder. Set aside.

Step 4 -In a large bowl, cream the sugar and the shortening together.

Step 5 -Add the eggs, one at a time, to the sugar mixture, mixing well after each addition.

Step 6 -Continue to mix the sugar mixture and alternate adding in small amounts of the flour mixture and the milk, ending with the flour mixture.

Step 7 -Stir in 1/2 teaspoon of lemon extract and 1/2 teaspoon of orange extract into the batter.

Step 8 -Pour the batter into the prepared bundt pan; the batter will be thicker than regular cake batter.

Step 9 -Bake the cake until a knife inserted into the center comes out clean, about 1 hour.

Step 10 -Allow the cake to cool.

Step 11 -While the cake cools, in a small mixing bowl, stir together the powdered sugar, butter, milk, and lemon extract. Continue to add the milk in a little at a time until it reaches a consistency that will pour but easily is not too runny.

Step 12 -Flip the cake over and remove it from the pan.

Step 13 -Slowly pour the glaze over the cooled cake. The glaze will harden slightly.

Step 14 -Slice and serve.

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