Recipe: Perfect Basic Butter Cake

Basic Butter Cake.

You can cook Basic Butter Cake using 15 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Basic Butter Cake

1. It's of a.
2. It's 250 g of salted butter.
3. Prepare 200 g of castor sugar.
4. Prepare of b.
5. Prepare 4 of large eggs (70g each).
6. It's of c.
7. You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
8. Prepare 4 tbsp of plain yogurt.
9. Prepare of d.
10. You need 1 tsp of baking powder.
11. You need 200 g of plain flour.
12. Prepare of Note:.
13. Prepare 1 of . Salted Butter and eggs should be at room temperature.
14. Prepare 2 of . Caster sugar has finer texture than the regular white sugar. However, regular white sugar can also be used in this recipe.
15. It's 3 of . Oven temperature varies. Adjust accordingly.

Basic Butter Cake step by step

1. Preheat oven to 170°C. Grease the sides of 4 mini baking tins with butter and line the base with baking paper. Note: Bake this cake using any preferred baking tin. I use 4 minis as i want to stack them into layers..
2. Using electric hand mixer, beat A until pale and creamy..
3. Add B (eggs) one at a time and beat well after each addition..
4. Add C. Beat until batter is smooth..
5. Next, sift in half of D. On low, beat for few seconds. Stop and remove the hand mixer. Sift in the rest of D and fold using rubber spatula until well - combined..
6. Pour batter into baking tin (s). Bake at 170°C for 30 mins for smaller baking tins or 40-50 minutes for a bigger pan. Cake is done when a toothpick or skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean..
7. Leave to cool before storing..
8. Serve..