today we are going to be making the very best
butter cake this cake is super buttery and soft and it took me about 15 tries
before i found the perfect recipe so i hope you all enjoy it let's do this
so to start off you want to preheat your oven to 150 degrees celsius and you want to prep your
cake tin i'm using an eight inch square cake tin today but any eight inch cake tin will do
so i'm starting off by just rubbing a little butter around the edges of the pan
and then placing a piece of baking paper inside there are neater ways of lining a square cake
tin with baking paper but i'm just doing the quick version today and you know by putting the
butter on the outsides first it helps everything kind of stick to the side so it's neat enough
now for aesthetic purposes i want as flat of a cake as possible so to help me achieve that i'm
just placing some soaked cake strips around the edges of the cake pan now i'm just going to set
that aside while we work on our cake batter so you want to start off by creaming together your butter
sugar and oil now it's really important that all your ingredients are at room temperature otherwise
your cake's just not going to come out right now usually you would use the paddle attachment when
mixing cake batter but for this recipe you want to use the whisk attachment because we
want to incorporate a lot of air into our batter because we have a lot of butter in this recipe
so you want to let this come together on a medium speed for about five minutes or so until your
mixture is light and creamy now i noticed when i started mixing this my butter was too cold so
i just scraped it off my whisk attachment and then popped my mixture into the microwave for
about 15 seconds and then continued mixing it it's also a good idea to scrape your bowl down
a couple of times as you're mixing this to make sure everything is mixing together well
now once that's done we're going to add in our five eggs one at a time
so i'm going to start off by cracking all of them into a bowl now you want to let each egg
mix in well until you can't see any of the yellow yolks and then add in your next egg
and you want to scrape your bowl down every now and then to make sure everything's mixing well
now once that's nicely mixed in we're going to sift our dry
ingredients together so i've got flour and baking powder and i'm going to sift that
together into this bowl and then give that a good mix by sifting your dry ingredients
you're going to incorporate more air into your batter which is what we want
now before i start adding this to my mixer i'm just going to get my buttermilk and vanilla ready
so these are the last two ingredients and i'm just going to combine them together and just give that
a little mix now all that's left to do is turn on your mixer on the lowest speed and add in half of
your dry ingredients now once that's mostly mixed in add in your buttermilk and vanilla and once
that's just mixed in add in your remaining dry ingredients now once it's almost mixed
in scrape down the sides of your bowl and mix again on the lowest speed just for a few seconds
and then you're done you really want to make sure that you're not over mixing your dry ingredients
now the last thing to do is to get our batter into our prepared cake tin
i'm just using my spatula to help gently smooth everything out now once that's evenly spread out
give your cake tin a little bang to get rid of any large air bubbles and now this cake is
going to go straight into the oven for one hour or until a toothpick comes out clean
so my cake is out of the oven now it smells incredible and i'm really happy with how
it's baked up so it's been cooling in the pan for about 15 minutes now and i'm going to now
turn it out of the cake pan remove the parchment paper and let it cool for another half an hour
or so before i cut it i like to let my cake cool upside down on this rack that i've got
because it creates these lines on the top which i use to cut out the perfect sized slices
so it's been about half an hour now i'm turning my cake over and i'm gonna go ahead and cut the cake
into slices i love having butter cake when it's slightly warm it just has that perfect melt in
your mouth texture so if you're having it the next day then i would highly recommend just popping it
into the microwave for about 10 to 15 seconds for that perfect butter cake okay now just take
a look at this cake it's super soft and fluffy and moist and has this beautiful crumb to it
it's super light and fluffy and it's got this beautiful melt-in-your-mouth texture
and it's super buttery which is what you want for a you know delicious butter cake
and it's like the perfect treat to go with a nice cup of tea in the afternoon
and it's great to use for layer cakes too so that is it guys i hope you enjoyed this video please
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