Vanilla Butter Cake

Name: Vanilla Butter Cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 1 cake, 8 serving(s)
Ingredients: 1 cup unsalted butter, softened; 2 cups sugar; 4 large eggs, at room temperature; 1 tablespoon white vinegar; almost 1 cup milk, at room temperature; 1 teaspoon vanilla; 2 3/4 cups unbleached all-purpose flour; 2 1/4 teaspoons baking powder; 3/4 teaspoon salt (cut back if you use salted butter!)

Submitted by kda949

"I found this recipe on the website cakecentral.com. They referred to it as Yellow Butter Cake from the Mermaid Bakery, but since I have no way of knowing for sure which Mermaid Bakery this came from,(there was no Mermaid Bakery when I goggled it, but a couple different variations- like mermaids bakery, little mermaid bakery, etc), so I left it out of the title :) A great from scratch version of a basic box cake- but here you can actually pronounce the ingredients! Unlike most yellow cake box mixes! The possibilities are endless for this one!! *** Note: all ingredients should be room temp- yes, it does make a difference!"

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Ready In:: 35mins
Ingredients:: 9
Yields:: 1 cake
Serves:: 8

ingredients

1 cup unsalted butter, softened
2 cups sugar
4 large eggs, at room temperature
1 tablespoon white vinegar
almost 1 cup milk, at room temperature
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 ³⁄₄ cups unbleached all-purpose flour
2 ¹⁄₄ teaspoons baking powder
³⁄₄ teaspoon salt (cut back if you use salted butter!)

directions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Add one Tablespoon vinegar to a one cup measuring cup and fill with milk to measure one cup (that explains the almost one cup milk!).
Grease and flour pans (9X13, 3=8″, 2=9″, or 1=10″).
Cream butter and sugar together until fluffy, about 3 minutes.
Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each.
Mix the vanilla into the milk and set aside.
Mix the flour, baking powder and salt together in a separate bowl.
Add flour to butter/sugar/eggs in two parts, alternating with the milk mixture, beating well after each addition.
Divide batter into prepared pans.
Bake 20 to 25 minutes, or until a cake tester inserted into the center of cake comes out clean.
Let cool in pans 10 minutes, then remove from pans and cool completely on wire rack.

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kda949

I live in sunny So. Cal with my hubbie and two daughters. We live close to the beach and spend as much time there as possible- especially my husband who surfs as much as possible! We love to go camping, travel to Hawaii and hang out around the house with friends and neighbors (when I'm not shuttling kids here and there!) I enjoy cooking and have a passion for cookbooks, but since I found this website and allrecipes.com I can't find an excuse to buy any more!

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