1 2 3 4 Cake
From midgelet 14 years ago
- 60 minutes to make
- Serves 12
A classic foolproof butter cake formula- so delicious and so many variations! I made this for my daughters birthday Easy to remember formula: 1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 3 cups flour, 4 eggs etc delicious butter/ pound type of cake - versatile to change the flavor & character of the cake
Ingredients
- 4 large eggs shopping list
- 2 cups sugar shopping list
- 1 cup butter ( 2 sticks ), softened - could be margarine shopping list
- 1 cup milk ( could be orange juice ) shopping list
- 3 cups all purpose flour shopping list
- 1/2 tsp salt shopping list
- 3 tsp. baking powder shopping list
- 1 Tbs. pure vanilla extract or any other flavor you wish shopping list
- Optional additions:grated orange peel, or some poppyseeds, or some chopped nuts, chopped dried fruit shopping list
How to make it
- In a large mixing bowl cream softened butter and sugar until fluffy.
- Add and beat in eggs one at a time until well blended.
- Blend and beat in the sifted flour, baking powder and salt alternately with the milk into creamed mixture until well blended.
- Blend in vanilla.
- Pour batter into a well greased and floured tube or bundt pan.
- Bake in a preheated 350F oven until tested done;
- about 50 to 60 minutes.
- Cool in pan 15 minutes and remove to rack to cool.
- Variations: bake in a 9 x 13 pan or 2, 9 inch cake pans ( photo ), baking time will differ
- Frost and fill cake as desired, this cake was frosted and filled with a basic buttercream
People Who Like This Dish 5
- normajd Nowhere, Us
- chichimonkeyface Albany
- zereh Redmond, WA
- tongtonghe Sydney, AU
- midgelet Whereabouts, Unknown
- Show up here?Review or Bookmark it! ✔
The Rating
Reviewed by 1 people-
Beautiful and thanks for a great cake post!
chichimonkeyface
in Albany loved it
The Groups
-
Sweet Tooth
451 members -
Food Styling And Photography
254 members -
Piece Of Cake
376 members -
Sweet Suite
159 members -
All Holidays
135 members -
Dairy Preparations
9 members -
The Holiday Dessert Table
125 members -
The Pound Cake Lover In You
31 members -
Perfect For Parties And Potlucks
80 members -
Cakes Of Any Type
145 members
Reviews & Comments 2
-
All Comments
-
Your Comments
" It was excellent "