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Butter Cake Recipe
Butter Cake Recipe-June 2024
Jun 17, 2025 2:38 AM

  Active Time

  15 min

  Total Time

  1 1/2 hr (includes cooling)

  

Ingredients

Makes 6 to 8 servings

  1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour

  1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

  Scant 1/2 teaspoon salt

  1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, softened

  1 cup sugar

  1 whole large egg plus 1 large egg yolk

  1 1/2 teaspoons grated orange zest

  1 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract

  3/4 cup whole milk

  

Garnish:

Garnish: Confectioners sugar

  

Step 1

Preheat oven to 375°F with rack in middle. Butter a 9-inch round cake pan, then line bottom with a round of parchment paper and butter parchment. Lightly dust with flour.

  

Step 2

Whisk together flour (1 3/4 cups), baking powder, and salt.

  

Step 3

Beat together butter and sugar with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy, about 5 minutes. Add whole egg, yolk, zest, and vanilla and beat 1 minute. At low speed, mix in flour mixture and milk alternately in batches.

  

Step 4

Spread batter in cake pan and bake until golden brown and a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, 35 to 40 minutes. Cool cake in pan 10 minutes, then turn out onto a rack.

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