Butter Cake

• 9 cups granulated sugar
• 6 cups cake flour
• 1/4 cups salt
• 1/4 cups baking soda
• 2 3/4 cups solid shortening
• 4 cups butter
• 2 cups whole eggs
• 5 cups buttermilk
• 1/8 cup vanilla extract
• 8 cups egg whites
• 8 cups granulated sugar

1. Preheat oven to 320 degrees F.
2. Mix together sugar, flour, salt, soda, shortening and butter in the bowl of a stand mixer.
3. Mix on 2nd speed for 3 minutes.
4. Then add whole eggs, buttermilk and vanilla to the mixture and beat again for 3 minutes on 2nd speed.
5. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites and sugar into a meringue state.
6. Then gently fold the meringue into the buttermilk mixture.
7. Pour into 4 parchment lined sheet pans or 4 (4 by 13-inch) round cake pans.
8. Bake until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the center of the cake.
9. This recipe was provided by professional chefs and has been scaled down from a bulk recipe provided by a restaurant.
10. The Food Network Kitchens chefs have not tested this recipe, in the proportions indicated, and therefore, we cannot make any representation as to the results.

sugar, cake flour, salt, baking soda, solid shortening, butter, eggs, buttermilk, vanilla, egg whites, granulated sugar

Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/butter-cake-recipe.html (may not work)