Coconut Cake
1 cup shortening
3 tsp. baking powder
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp. salt
3 eggs
1/2 cup milk
2 cups cake flour
1 tsp. vanilla
Cream shortening and sugar thoroughly; add 1 whole egg and 2 egg yolks and beat thoroughly between each addition. Add flavoring in milk. Sift together fiour, baking powder, and salt. Add alternately with milk to the creamed mixture. Pour into 2 oiled round 8-inch cake pans and bake at 350 F. for about 25 minutes. Fill and frost with white icing and sprinkle top and sides generously with grated coconut.
