Basic Butter Cake Recipe

Name: Basic Butter Cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 1 h 10 min
Total time: 1 h 25 min
Yield: 10
Ingredients: 185 g butter softened; 1 cup caster sugar; 1 tsp vanilla essence; 3 eggs large; 2 cups self-raising flour; 1/4 cup milk

Ingredients

185 g butter softened
1 cup caster sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
3 eggs large
2 cups self-raising flour
1/4 cup milk

PREP TIME 15m	COOK TIME 1h10m	TOTAL TIME 1h25m
YIELD 10

Instructions

Preheat oven to 180C and grease a 20 cm cake tin well.
In a large bowl, beat the butter, sugar and vanilla together with an electric mixer until light and creamy.
Add the eggs one at a time and beat well after each addition.
Sift the flour over the mixture alternately with the milk, adding a third at a time. Stir in lightly.
Spoon batter into prepared tin and bake for 50-60 minutes or until a skewer pulls clean from the middle of the cake.
Cool cake in tin for a few minutes before turning out onto a wire rack.
Cake can be iced or dusted with icing sugar if desired.