Basic Butter Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Yields:
-
2 9inch layers
- Serves:
- 12-16
ingredients
- 1 cup butter, sofened
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 3 large egg yolks
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 3 1⁄4 cups cake flour
- 2 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1 1⁄4 cups milk
directions
- 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.
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Sharlene~W
Campbell, California
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