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Serve with fresh berries and whipped cream. When the fresh berry season arrives in Skagit County, we enjoy this cake often. The vanilla flavor and crunchy edges offers so much more than what we might buy in a grocery store. Quick to assemble, using basic ingredients and it’s quick to bake. I bake it in a round 8-inch cake pan. The center rose into a rounded dome. What we don’t eat within three days, we store the rest in the refrigerator, air tight, to keep that fresh flavor.

Ingredients

1 cup sugar

5 Tbsp shortening

1 and 1/2 cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

Dash or two of salt

2 eggs

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