Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, butter cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Butter Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Butter Cake is something which I have loved my whole life.
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.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook butter cake using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Butter Cake:
- Get 230 gm butter (salted), softened
- Take 4 large eggs @ room temp
- Make ready 50 gm + 150gm sugar (i used 100 gm demerara plus 50 white sugar for the cake and another 50grams white sugar to beat with the egg white.
- Get 200 gm Self-raising flour or plain flour +1tbsp baking powder - twice sifted
- Take 60 ml milk
- Make ready 1 vanilla bean, seeds scraped (or 1 tsp vanilla extract)
- Make ready Pinch salt
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 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. I found this buttercake recipe in an old cookbook I bought at a garage sale and couldn't wait to try it.
Instructions to make Butter Cake:
- Preheat oven at 170c, fan force. Prepare an 8 inch cake tin.. Line the base and grease the sides (greasing helps the cake’s sides to rise well)
- Separate the eggs, and place the whites into a medium sized bowl. Beat egg whites until soft peaks, gradually add 50gm sugar and the salt and beat until stiff. Set aside.
- Cream butter and 150 gms sugar until pale and fluffy. Put in vanilla seeds and and beat. Put in egg yolks one at a time and beat well after each addition.
- Put in half the flour and mix on low speed until incorporated. Put in milk in 2 additions and beat on low speed.. Mix in balance of flour.
- Put half the egg whites in and mix on low speed. Pour the balance of egg whites in and FOLD.
- Pour batter into pan and level..
- Bake for 45 minutes or until skewer comes out clean. (Turn down the heat to 150 for the last 15 minutes if the top seems to be getting dark). Enjoy
I knew it had been someone's favorite because of the well-worn page. 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. Peanut butter cake, peanut butter frosting, AND peanut butter drizzle. We love whole chopped Reese's, but for a colorful (and still peanut-buttery) twist.
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