Stately Coconut Layer Cake

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Title: Stately Coconut Layer Cake
Categories: Cakes
Yield: 10 servings

1 c Shortening
2 c Sugar
4 Eggs
3 c Sifted cake flour
2 1/2 ts Baking powder
1/2 ts Salt
1 c Milk
1 ts Almond extract
1 ts Vanilla extract
Lemon-orange filling
Or; see recipe
Pineapple filling; see
-recipe
Boiled frosting; see recipe
1 sm Fresh coconut, or; grated
1/2 c Flaked coconut

Recipe by: Southern Living
Preparation Time: 0:15
Cream shortening; gradually add sugar, beating well at
medium speed of an electric mixer. Add eggs, one at a
time, beating well after each addition. Combine flour,
baking powder, and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately
with milk, beginning and ending with flour mixture. Mix
after each addition. Stir in flavorings. Pour batter into
3 greased and floured 9-inch round cakepans. Bake at 375
degrees for 20 to 25 minutes or until a wooden pick
inserted in center comes out clean. Cool in pans 10
minutes; remove from pans, and let cool completely on wire
racks. Spread Lemon-Orange Filling or Pineapple Filling
between layers; spread Boiled Frosting on top and sides,
and sprinkle with coconut. Yield: one 3-layer cake.

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