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.
This homemade butter cake recipe is fail-proof.
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.
You can Have Butter cake using 7 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Butter cake
- It's of eggs.
- It's of Caster sugar.
- Lets Go Prepare of vanilla essence.
- What You needis of ovalette/ cake emulsifier.
- What You needis of cake flour.
- Lets Go Prepare of full cream milk.
- Lets Go Prepare of melted butter.
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Butter cake step by step
- Beat the eggs and sugar together for 5 mins low speed.
- After 5 mins add in vanilla essence and ovalette. Beat for 10-15 minutes depending on your mixer. Hand mixer user beat at medium speed. Stand mixer user beat at high speed..
- Add in your flour bit by bit.
- Lastly add your melted butter.
- You can bake it as is but if you want to have a chocolate flavour you may add in chocolate emulco on a separate dish..
- I'm just making a plain butter cake but making it colourful. It appeals the eyes of my kid 😂.
- You can bake as is or water bath for 45 mins before switching the pan/ removing the pan from the water bath then, to the other side and bake for another 10-20 mins..
- If you have colours you might one to cover the top using a bigger tray on the top rack to prevent from browning. I used aluminium foil and sadly the cake touched the foil and voilà ... 😅.
- Let it sit on a cooling rack for an hour or two.
Kids will love it and perfect for tea party.! This Kentucky Butter Cake recipe is CRAZY moist, buttery and coated with a sweet buttery sauce that crusts the outside and soaks into the cake making it amazing for days. Our velvety butter cake recipe makes a great base for your choice of fillings and frostings. Making a great cake from scratch takes just a few minutes longer than stirring up a mix. My take on the Butter Cake!