The Betty Crocker cookbook and much more are used to be printed at western publishing in Poughkeepsie New York. Once a year, someone before Christmas if I remember correctly,they would have a huge factory clearance sale. So somewhere around 1976 or 1977 I bought a factory second copy of the Betty Crocker cookbook! I still have it but it's falling apart. It's a lot easier just to come to this site. It's great because it just makes the one layer or about a dozen cupcakes. So if you don't want to much this is perfect. It is great for upside down cake and I'll kinds of other things. Sometimes I use part better with the shortening but other times I don't. Sometimes I double vanilla because I like vanilla so much. But it is a very reliable recipe and thank you so much for printing it here.

I absolutely love this recipe. I'm so glad that I found it again. It makes a delicious cake. I used to use it when my children were small for birthday cakes. I'm 67 now and they are 35 and 40. Last year, I have used it for an Old Fashioned Apple Jelly Cake with sweetened coconut placed on the outside. It's Delicious. This cake is so versatile. :)

Has anyone made it in a Bundt pan? I wouldn't think it would make any difference to the outcome, but wanted to check.

I was please to see this recipe again. I have made this cake before but lost the cook book it was in and I will make it today. Thank you! Bonnie D. Morse

My Original BC cookbook bought when I was 19 fell apart have always used this for a basic cake to add anything to. Needed to see again to refresh memory for ingredient portions still great go to recipe.

My cookbooks are stored in boxes for now so I'm absolutely thrilled I found this recipe online! I love to add chopped rosemary to the batter and top the slices of cake with fresh strawberries and whipoed cream! Yummy!

I have been using this recipe for 49 years. I use it mostly as a base for Italian plum cake and apple cake. I increase flour by 1 tablespoon and half the plums and put them on top. For apple cake, slice the apples insert on the top and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar.

Have made this recipe since the fifties. Great especially if you have a small family. Glad people are still using it. Still have my fifties Betty Crocker cookbook.

Exactly!!! Mine was handed down decades ago as well. Betty Crocker is known for "tried, true and tested" recipes. The first edition has classics that can't be beat and the BEST beginners cookbook. Modifications naturally bloom from this core publication.

I received the cookbook with this recipe in 1977. I used it a lot. When I moved in August of this year, I gave away my cookbooks. Tonight I was so excited to see that I could find the recipe online!

This is my all-time favorite cake! Tastes like the old fashioned yellow cakes that everyone's mother used to make! I put melted butter and brown sugar in the bottom of pan like I'm making am upside down cake. Sometimes I add any fresh or canned fruit I have around, sometimes just the butter and sugar and it's delicious, no frosting or cream needed! My family loves it for dessert, breakfast, snacktime. It's wonderful!

I have used this recipe for many years as my shortcake. My family loves it. I've also used it as pineapple upside down cake. So good!

SO happy to see this recipe -- first cake I ever learned to make as a kid, and it's still delicious 35 years later. I agree with the posts about using it as the base for Pineapple Upside Down cake, and am thrilled to try it as Boston Cream Pie. Thanks everyone!

OMgosh!!!! You just obliterated my phone intentions for pineapple!!! Awesome idea!! So done!!! Thank you!!

Love this cake, great taste and it's so reliable.

Been making this recipe for over 40 yrs. Love it. Even though it doesn't say it, makes great cupcakes.

I've had this recipe for over 30 yrs. Usually make peach upside down cake with it. But the measure for milk has been obliterated from my copy of this recipe - thus my request for the recipe. Thank you muchly.