Butter Cake. A butter cake is a cake in which one of the main ingredients is butter. Butter cake is baked with basic ingredients: butter, sugar, eggs, flour, and leavening agents such as baking powder or baking soda. It is considered as one of the quintessential cakes in American baking.
Butter cake is a fairly simple cake to make, but its richness and fluffiness make it a decadent Butter cake is the perfect base for birthday cakes, wedding cakes, and makes a delicious snack that's great.
Butter and eggs are what to look for in a cake recipe.
This isn't a light froo froo cake.
You can cook Butter Cake using 6 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Butter Cake
- You need 250 g of butter, softened.
- You need 1 cup of caster sugar.
- It's 2 1/2 cups of self-raising flour.
- It's 3 of eggs.
- It's 2 teaspoons of vanilla essence.
- Prepare 2/3 cup of milk.
This homemade butter cake recipe is fail-proof. Since butter cakes are rich in oil, there is no need to run a knife around the sides. Invert and drop the cake onto a cake board and loosen the detachable base by tapping it lightly. Butter cakes are, you guessed it, chock-full of creamy, wonderful butter.
Butter Cake instructions
- Place sugar and butter in a bowl, beat at medium speed or hand mix using spatula until creamy. Contiinue beating, adding eggs, until well mixed. Add vanilla essence. Add flour alternately with milk, beat or mix at low speed after each addition..
- Pour batter into prepared pan. Bake 45-55 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Let it cool completely before serving/frosting..
It's easily adaptable to all kinds of filling and frostings. These are some of our favorites. This butter cake recipe is quite simple to make and can be tried even by beginners. Serve it however you like with sugar dusted over, whipped cream frosting, butter cream frosting or chocolate frosting. The buttery flavor of this cake makes it ultra velvety and sweet without being too dense.
