old fashioned butter cake

STERLING HEIGHTS, MI
Updated on Jan 22, 2014

This is from Granny's Cookbook. It is so good and we like to serve it with strawberries.

prep time 25 Min
cook time 1 Hr 30 Min
method Bake
yield 9 "x13" baking dish or pan or 2 loaf pans

Ingredients

  • 1 cup butter
  • 2 cups sugar or splenda
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla
  • 4 large eggs
  • 3 cups all purpose flour
  • 1 teaspoon baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup buttermilk
  • - powdered sugar
  • - cooking spray

How To Make old fashioned butter cake

  • Step 1
    Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray baking dish or 2 loaf pans. Beat together butter and sugar until fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Add eggs one at a time,blending well after each addition. Combine flour with baking soda and salt. Add to batter alternately with buttermilk,beginning and ending with flour.
  • Step 2
    Pour batter into prepared baking dish. Bake for about 1 ½ hours or until a pick inserted comes out clean. Allow cake to stand 5 minutes and remove from pan and finish cooling on a rack. Dust with powdered sugar before serving.

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