Oct 8, 2011

Old Fashioned Butter Cake

6th Jul 2011

Nothing more satisfying and comforting than a slice of good old fashioned butter cake with a cup of tea! A simple and easy butter cake recipe adapted from Sonia @ Nasi Lemak Lover.



Moist and buttery... Just nice to use up my can of Golden Churn butter.


Old Fashioned Butter Cake
Recipe adapted from Nasi Lemak Lover
Ingredients:
250g Butter (chilled)
100g Castor sugar
5 Egg yolks
230g Cake flour
1tsp Double action baking powder
4tbsp Milk
1/2tsp Vanilla essence

5 Egg whites
90g Sugar




Method:
Preheat oven at 170 deg C, line a large loaf tin or a 8" square tin
1. Cream butter, sugar and vanilla in a mixing bowl until light and creamy. (using medium speed)
2. Add the egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the flour and baking powder and beat well to combine. Fold in the milk and combine well.
3. Whisk egg whites in a clean large bowl until soft foam. Gradually add in sugar, and beat till soft peak.
4. Take one portion of the egg white mixture, and use a hand whisk to stir well with egg yolk mixture till combine and thick paste.
5. Slowly fold in the balance egg white with a spatula till well combine.
6. Pour the batter into the cake pan and bake for 55 mins or untill cooked.


7 comments:

Edith said...

You are right, nothing beats an old fashioned butter cake.  This crumb looks great.

Dzoli said...

It  looks fanatstic.I love simplicity of thsi mosit cake;)

Nasi Lemak Lover said...

this is my all time favourite! Thanks for the link.

Hanushi said...

Your cake crumb is so smooth... 

Ellena (cuisine paradise) said...

Drool!!! Nothing beats a good slice or two of butter cake with a cup of English tea.....

Beotracy said...

Hi wen

Any idea how big is the eggs?

Rgds
tracy 

wensdelight said...

Hi Tracy,

The egg I used weigh about 60g each with shell.

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