Easy Butter Cake

Somebody in the name of Bella Donna badly craves for a butter cake and had been pressing me to find the butter cake from Mama's recipe book. Baking the cake was easy, finding the recipe was not. There were hundreds of handwritten recipes and there was no table of content nor index to help me out.

one of mama's old recipe book

 I chose the Easy Butter Cake to try on. I would say the taste wasn't as impressive but boy, it's classic. The kind of simple cakes that old folks make. The one that brings back childhood memories. But something that I wouldn't recommend serving for special occasions simply because there are better butter cake recipes.This one's best eaten with coffee or hot chocolate.

EASY BUTTER CAKE

Ingredients:

2 cups cake flour, sifted (measure then sift)
2 tsps. baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
1 1/4 cups sugar
3 eggs
2/3 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla

Procedure:

1. Preheat oven to 375 deg F. Grease and line 8 or 9 inch round pan or a big loaf pan.
2. Sift together flour, baking powder and salt and set aside.
3. Cream butter and gradually add sugar. Mix well.
4. Add eggs one at a time mixing well after each addition.
5. Add flour mixture and milk alternately starting and ending with flour (3 parts flour, 2 parts milk).
6. Beat until just incorporated. Do not overmix.
7. Bake for 25-35 minutes or until toothpick inserted comes out clean.
8. Fill and frost with your favorite frosting if you wish.

Here's a slice for Da Binsi!