Basic Buttermilk Cake
"This came in a pamplet in the free Hallmark Magazine. You can use this basic recipe for a layer cake with icing, cupcakes or a sheet cake with icing or a glaze. I wanted to keep so am posting here. Prep time is a guess as I have not personally made this cake yet. Makes two 8-inch round or square layers, or two dozen cupcakes, or one 9 x 13 x 2 inch cake or 10 muffin-size cupcakes"
photo by Cheryl M.
- Ready In:
- 35mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
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12
ingredients
- 3⁄4 cup unsalted butter, softened
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 3 large eggs, at room temperature
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 cup buttermilk, at room temperature
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons vanilla
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 with rack in the middle of the oven. Butter cake pans and line the bottoms with wax paper or parchment paper cut to fit. Butter the paper. If making cupcakes, use paper liners or butter the cupcake pan.
- Beat the butter and sugar at medium speed with electric mixer until light and fluffy in a large mixing bowl. Beat in eggs one at a time. Scrape bowl and beaters to incorporate.
- Sift the flour with the baking powder and baking soda. Add one quarter of the dry mixture to the butter-egg mixture and then add the vanilla and a third of the buttermilk. Repeat beginning and ending with the flour mixture and scraping well after each addition.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pans and spread to the edges with a spatula. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.
- Cool in pans of a rack for 5 minutes. Turn pans onto the rack, remove parchment paper or was paper and cool completely before frosting.
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Reviews
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I've been looking a long time for a good moist cake and this is the one. I toped it with a chocolate icing. Perfect! I'll make it again. Here's the icing I used. <br/>1 stick butter softened<br/>2/3 c. Hershey's Cocoa<br/>3 c. powdered sugar<br/>1/3 c. milk<br/>1 tsp. vanilla extract<br/>Beat softened butter, cocoa, powdered sugar, milk and vanilla until smooth. <br/><br/>Yummy! Enjoy! -
This cake is really lovely. Before baking...I tried a wee bit of the batter. It was like velvet...so I knew the baked cake would be wonderful...and I was not wrong. I usually don't have much luck making cakes from scratch...but this one turned out perfectly. I baked it in a 9x13 pan and put a chocolate icing on top. Thank you for sharing this wonderful cake! -
Incredible cake recipe, right from start (Licking the beaters) To the scrumptious end of eating this moist, delectable cake! My new favourite!
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Lovely moist cake -
I made this cake with a buttercream white frosting and it was moist and delicious. I am making it again for a family birthday with a strawberry frosting. This is now my white cake default recipe.
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Tweaks
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My husband is addicted to this cake! I make it in a 9 x 13 pan and add a vanilla glaze to the top. When it is done it tastes like the white half of a NY black and white cookie. I make the following changes/additions: I use half butter/half coconut oil instead of all butter and put in a couple of drops of orange extract. This is a light, delicious cake and my new go-to yellow cake recipe. Thanks for posting!
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
TXOLDHAM
Plano, Texas
