Let's Eat Cake

Butter Cake Recipe

Ingredients

~ 120 g of softened butter 

~ 180 g of caster sugar 

~ 2 eggs 

~ 1 tsp of vanilla 

~ 240 g of self-raising flour 

~1/2 cup of milk 

~ Icing sugar to dust 

Method/ Steps: 

1. Preheat oven to 180°c. Grease and line base of a 20cm cake tin. Beat butter and sugar together until light and creamy. 

2. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well between each. Add vanilla. Fold in half the flour, then half the milk. Repeat with the remaining flour and milk and be careful not to over-mix. 

3. Transfer batter to pan. Bake for 30-35 minutes until cake is well risen and golden. Dust with icing sugar. 

Fun Facts about Butter Cake: 

- The first butter cake ever invented was in 1930, but it was a mistake. 

- The inventor was a St. Louis-area German American. 

- No surprise but a butter cakes main ingredient is butter!