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Butter cake

Butter cake recipe

Butter cake is quite a dense style of cake and is perfect to serve for afternoon tea when you have guests. It also makes a great base for any birthday cake recipe. Find more on Kidspot New Zealand.

Category:

After school snacks, Birthday cakes, Budget, Cakes & Baking, Cake stall

Ingredients:

  • 250g butter, softened
  • 1 cup caster sugar
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 3 eggs
  • 2 cups self-raising flour, sifted
  • 2/3 cup milk

Method:

Preheat oven to 180°C. Line a 20cm square cake pan with baking paper and set aside.


In a mixing bowl, using a hand mixer, beat the butter, sugar and vanilla until pale and fluffy.

Beat the eggs in one at a time until combined.

Add half of the flour and half of the milk and fold into the mixture using a spatula. Add the the rest of the flour and milk and continue to fold until all combined.

Pour cake mix into the cake tin and smooth top.

Bake for 55-60 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean.

Leave to cool in tin for 10 minutes and then turn out onto a wire rack to continue cooling.

Notes

  • This mixture is quite thick and fluffy in comparison to some cake mixtures.
  • You can give this cake a great citrus twist by replacing half of the milk with orange juice and adding the rind of one orange.This recipe was created by Jennifer Cheung for Kidspot, New Zealand's best recipe finder

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