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.

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. This homemade butter cake recipe is fail-proof. You can cook Butter cake using 8 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Butter cake

1. Prepare 100 grams of Butter, softened.
2. Prepare 110 grams of Caster sugar.
3. It’s 2 of nos Egg.
4. Prepare 110 grams of Plain flour.
5. Prepare 2 tablespoons of Milk.
6. You need 3/4 teaspoon of Vanilla essence.
7. Prepare 1 teaspoon of Baking powder.
8. You need 1/8 teaspoon of Salt.

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Butter cake step by step

1. Preheat oven at 180° C for 15 minutes. Line base and sides of a deep 18 cm round cake pan with baking paper..
2. Beat butter and sugar in a bowl with electric mixer until soft and creamy..
3. Add egg, one at a time and beat until well combined. Add vanilla essence, mix well..
4. Gently stir in sifted flour and milk in two batches. Spread the mixture into prepared pan and bake for 25 minutes or until a skewer inserted the centre of the cake comes out clean..
5. Stand cake 5 minutes then turn onto a wire rack to cool..
6. NOTES – Have all the ingredients at room temperature especially butter and egg..
7. Sift together the flour, baking powder and salt..

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