Yellow Butter Cake
By
Courtney Bailey
@Courtney_Bailey
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I love butter cake! This is the quintessential birthday cake from my childhood.
Ingredients
- 6 large
- egg yolks
- 1 c
- milk, whole
- 2 tsp
- vanilla extract
- 3 c
- sifted all purpose flour
- 1 1/2 c
- sugar
- 1 Tbsp
- +1 tsp. baking powder
- 3/4 tsp
- salt
- 12 Tbsp
- butter, unsalted at room temperature
How to Make Yellow Butter Cake
- 1Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F. Butter and flour two 9 inch cake pans lining the bottom with parchment paper and set aside.
- 2In a medium glass bowl, blend egg yolks, 3/4 c. milk, and vanilla. In a large mixing bowl, add all of your dry ingredients and blend together on a low setting. Add butter, and remaining milk and blend until moistened, continue to mix on a medium setting for another 1-2 minutes then begin to add the egg mixture continue beating as you go. Add slowly over about 3 minutes. Make certain to blend out all of the lumps.
- 3Once blended, pour evenly into the prepared pans. Bake for 25-30 minutes in the pre-heated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool completely before removing from the pans. Stack and frost with homemade chocolate frosting.
