Butter cake recipe

Butter cake recipe – free easy recipe for butter cake

This butter cake recipe yields a rich butter cake flavored with vanilla. The proportion of flour to butter and sugar is slightly higher than the butter pound cake recipe, but the taste and texture of the cake is simply rich and delicious. This recipe is excellent for novelty cakes.

Ingredients and cake tin sizes:

Round tin sizes 6 inches 8 inches 10 inches 12 inches

Square tin sizes 5 inches 7 inches 9 inches 11 inches

Butter 75g 150g 300g 600g

Castor sugar 75g 150g 300g 600g

Self raising flour 85g 170g 340g 680g

Salt a pinch a pinch a pinch a pinch

Baking powder 1/4 tsp 1/2 tsp 1 tsp 2 tsp

Eggs 2 4 8 16

Milk 1 tbsp 2 tbsp 4 tbsp 8 tbsp

Vanilla essence 3/4 tsp 1 1/2 tsp 3 tsp 6 tsp

Method:

Preheat oven to 170 degrees Celsius.

Beat butter and sugar till soft and creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add salt.

In a separate bowl, sift flour, baking powder and salt 3 times. Fold in the sifted ingredients into the creamed mixture alternately with milk, starting and ending with flour.

Finally add in vanilla essence and combine well. Pour batter into a greased and floured cake tin and bake for 35 to 40 minutes until a skewer inserted in the centre of the cake comes out clean.

Remove cake from oven and let it cool completely before decorating it.

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