50+ Friends Club Cookbook -- Cakes and Frostings -- FIG CAKE

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Fig Cake

From the Kitchen of: Pepper
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CAKE
1/4	Cup	butter, softened
1	Cup	sugar
1		egg
2	Cups	all-purpose unbleached flour
1/2	tsp	salt
2	tsp	baking powder
1	Cup	evaporated skim milk
1	tsp	vanilla extract
1/4	tsp	almond extract
1	cup	stemmed, chopped fresh figs

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Butter two 8-inch round cake pans.
In a large mixing bowl, cream butter with the sugar until fluffy.
Add egg and beat well.
Into a separate bowl, sift together the flour, salt, and baking powder. Add to the butter mixture alternately with the milk.
Fold in vanilla and almond extracts and chopped figs.
Pour batter into cake pans.
Bake for 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out dry.
Cool before filling.