Recipe: Yummy Butter Cake

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.

Butter cake is a fairly simple cake to make, but its richness and fluffiness make it a decadent dessert for any occasion. Butter cake is the perfect base for birthday cakes, wedding cakes. 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. You need of all-purpose flour.
2. It's of baking powder.
3. Prepare of salt.
4. Prepare of Unsalted butter, at room temperature.
5. Prepare of granulated white sugar.
6. You need of large eggs.
7. You need of vanilla extract.
8. It's of plain greek yogurt.

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 and eggs are what to look for in a cake recipe. This isn't a light froo froo cake.

Butter Cake instructions

1. Pre heat oven to 375 degrees..
2. Lightly grease the pan (loaf pan, mini loaf pan) 8x8 or 9x9 inch square pan or round pan with some butter. Mix the flour and baking powder together and sift. Add in the salt and mix well. Set that aside..
3. Use an electic hand mixer or stand mixer to beat the butter and and sugar until well combined or pale yellow in color approximately 2 minutes..
4. Add in the first egg. Beat well after each addition of egg until creamy, about 1 to 2 minutes after adding each egg..
5. Scrape down the sides for even mixing. Add in the vanilla extract and mix well. Fold in the flour and mix well. Add in the plain yogurt or whole milk..
6. Pour the batter into the greased baking pan. Shake it lightly to distribute the cake batter evenly. Bake until golden brown and cooked, about 40 - 50 minutes. To prevent the top of the cake from over browning, cover the top of the baking pan with a sheet of aluminum foil once the cake top is set. Use a cake tester to test doneness..
7. Remove it from the oven and let cool on the wire rack for 5 minutes. Cut into pieces and serve warm..

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. Butter cake is considered the quintessential American cake. Variations of it are often served at weddings and birthdays. The most common forms are white and yellow cake.