BUTTER CAKE RECIPE EASY RECIPES

Steps:

• Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
• Add eggs one at a t ime beating well after each addition. Add vanilla essence. Beat.
• Fold flour into creamed mixture alternating with milk, beginning and ending with flour.
• Spoon into greased 20cm square cake tin.
• Bake in moderate oven (180 degrees C) for 35 to 40 minutes until skewer inserted into centre comes out clean.
• Allow to cool in tin 5 minutes before turning out. Cool completely before icing.

Steps:

• Butter and flour two 9-inch round cake pans and preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In mixer bowl, on medium-high speed, beat butter and sugar until fluffy (4 to 5 minutes).
• Add eggs, then yolks,one a time, beating well after each, scraping sides of bowl occasionally.
• Beat in vanilla.
• In another bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt.
• Mix in about a third of flour mixture into butter mixture.
• Stir in half the milk, just until blended.
• Stir in another third of flour mixture, then remaining milk and finally the rest of the flour mixture.
• Spread batter equally into two the two cake pans.
• Bake until wooden skewer or toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean (25 to 30 minutes).
• Cool on racks in pans for 10 minutes, then inverte cakes onto racks and remove pans.
• Cool completely before forsting.