Aunt Mary's Delicious Bunny Cake

Name: Aunt Mary's Delicious Bunny Cake
Total time: 270
Yield: 10
Ingredients: 3 cups all-purpose flour; 1 ¾ teaspoons baking powder; 1 ¼ teaspoons salt; 1 ⅓ cups milk at room temperature; 1 ½ teaspoons lemon extract; 1 ¼ teaspoons vanilla extract; ¾ teaspoon orange extract; 1 ⅛ cups unsalted butter at room temperature; 2 cups white sugar; 4 eggs at room temperature; ½ cup vegetable shortening; ½ cup butter at room temperature; 4 cups confectioners' sugar; 2 tablespoons milk at room temperature; 1 teaspoon clear vanilla extract

Recipe by Dabney from allrecipes.com

Dessert 5 Hr. 30 Mins.

Ingredients

10 servings

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3 cups all-purpose flour
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1 ¾ teaspoons baking powder
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1 ¼ teaspoons salt
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1 ⅓ cups milk at room temperature
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1 ½ teaspoons lemon extract
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1 ¼ teaspoons vanilla extract
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¾ teaspoon orange extract
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1 ⅛ cups unsalted butter at room temperature

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2 cups white sugar
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4 eggs at room temperature
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½ cup vegetable shortening
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½ cup butter at room temperature
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4 cups confectioners' sugar
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2 tablespoons milk at room temperature
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1 teaspoon clear vanilla extract

Instructions

Place a rack into the lower third of oven.
Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
Grease and flour a cake mold pan (such as a bunny cake or train cake mold) using vegetable shortening.
Sift flour, baking powder, and salt in a bowl.
Mix 1 1/3 cup milk, lemon extract, 1 1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract, and orange extract in a separate bowl.
Beat unsalted butter in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until butter is creamy and smooth, 1 to 2 minutes. Beat in white sugar and continue beating until the mixture is light and fluffy, about 5 more minutes. Scrape the sides of the bowl occasionally.
Beat in eggs, one at a time, beating each egg in thoroughly before adding the next.
Reduce mixer speed to low and beat in flour mixture in several additions, alternating with milk mixture; begin and end with flour mixture. Do not overbeat. Scrape bowl occasionally.
Pour batter evenly into prepared cake pan.
Bake in the preheated oven until lightly browned and a toothpick inserted into the middle of the cake comes out clean, 30 to 45 minutes.
Place cake in pan on a wire rack and allow to cool for 15 minutes before inverting pan to remove cake. Allow cake to completely cool on wire rack, 3 to 4 hours.
Beat vegetable shortening, 1/2 cup butter, confectioners' sugar, 2 tablespoons milk, and 1 teaspoon clear vanilla extract in a bowl until frosting is smooth and creamy.
Pack the frosting into a heavy resealable plastic bag; force the frosting into one corner of the bag. Clip a small corner off the plastic bag, seal the bag, and pipe the frosting onto the cooled cake in desired pattern.