Bakery-Style Butter Cake Recipe
This bakery-style butter cake recipe gives you a soft, moist, melt-in-your-mouth cake with a golden buttery crust — exactly like the one you remember from the corner bakery. Made with simple pantry ingredients and easy step-by-step instructions, this is the easiest classic butter cake recipe you'll ever bake.
Ingredients
- 1 & 3/4 cups Cup Cake Flour (230 grams)
- 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 cup butter ((250 grams))
- 1 cup castor sugar ( (200 grams ))
- 5 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup milk ((59ml))
Instructions
- Preheat over at 320°F / 160°C.
- Sift the flour and baking powder. Set aside.
- In the mixing bowl, add in the butter and sugar. Mix it on low speed for 2 minutes until the sugar disappear. Then increase to medium speed and mix for 15 minutes. One of the keys to this butter cake, these 2 ingredients must be mixed well. Continue mixing until the butter is white, light and fluffy. You will see that in about 15 minutes.
- Add in the eggs, one by one. Mix until the yellow eggs disappear.
- Add in the sifted dry ingredients spoon by spoon. This is another key to make good butter cake.
- Add the milk and vanilla extract. Continue mixing for another 3-5 minutes.
- Pour the batter into the baking pan. Bake at 160°C / 320°F for 55-60 minutes or until a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
- Test the cake using the cake test.
- Cool the cake on the cooling rack for about 15 minutes. Once it is cooled, you may cut and serve the cake.