Old-Fashioned Yellow Cake With Chocolate Icing

• Cake
• 1 cup vegetable shortening
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 whole egg
• 3 egg yolks
• 1 1/2 cups sifted cake flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 pinch salt
• 1/2 cup milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• 3 egg whites
• Icing
• 3 ounces unsweetened chocolate
• 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
• 1/2 cup unsalted butter, cut into 8 pieces
• 1 egg yolk, beaten
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

1. To make cake, preheat oven to 350u0b0F
2. In a large bowl, beat shortening until light.
3. Slowly beat in sugar.
4. Add egg and egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
5. Sift flour with baking powder and salt.
6. Add to batter in 3 parts, alternating with 3 parts milk.
7. Stir in vanilla.
8. Beat egg whites until stiff.
9. Fold into batter.
10. Pour batter into two buttered and floured 8-inch round cake pans.
11. Bake for about 25 minutes, until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
12. Cool on a wire rack before icing.
13. To make icing, in top of a double boiler over simmering water, melt chocolate and stir in condensed milk. Beat until smooth.
14. Stir in butter, one piece at a time, stirring after each addition. Stir in egg yolk and vanilla. Beat until smooth and thick. (If the icing becomes too thick, thin with a little hot water.).

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Taken from www.food.com/recipe/old-fashioned-yellow-cake-with-chocolate-icing-403551 (may not work)