Butter Cake
"A no fuss desert. Save time by making it a day ahead. Delicious toped with lavender whipped cream. From BHG."
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 5mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
12
ingredients
- 1 cup butter
- 6 large eggs
- 2 cups whipping cream
- 3 cups sugar
- 3 cups cake flour
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
- 2 tablespoons finely shredded orange peel
- 2 teaspoons orange extract
directions
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
- Grease and flour a 10-inch fluted tube pan; set aside.
- Let butter, eggs and cream stand at room temperature for 30 minutes.
- Place butter in a large mixing bowl; beat on medium speed for 30 seconds. Gradually add sugar, 2 tablespoons at a time, beating until well combined (this will take about 10 minutes). Beat 2 minutes more.
- Add eggs, one at a time, beating about 1 minute after each addition. Alternately add flour and cream, beating on low speed after each addition just until combined.
- Beat in vanilla, orange peel and orange extract.
- Transfer to prepared pan.
- Bake about 1 hour and 20 minutes or until center springs back when lightly touched.
- Cool in pan on wire rack for 15 minutes; remove from pan.
- Cool completely on wire rack.
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Hello, Everyone!
My husband and I met in college, at Viginia Tech. GO HOKIES!! My major was Nutrition. The science of food is amazing to me. I love to cook and love to eat even more! Currently, I do not work outside our home. We have a baby boy, who is 2 now. I love to see how he decides to eat his food and what he thinks after tasting it.
For fun, I enjoy making new recipies and trying to come up with my own, which I call train wrecks.
My favorite recipes are ones that do not have a long list of ingrdients and the ingredients it calls for are ones that I generally keep in the pantry.
It makes me feel good when my husband tells me the meal I have prepared is a keeper and one to make again. I love him even more when he tells someone else about something that I make. The most feel good thing for me is when my mom asks for the recipe. My mother is the greatest domestic "Chef de Cuisine", or Head of the Kitchen, in my opinion.
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