Butter Cake

Basic Butter Cake

Ingredients

250gm butter

200gm castor sugar

4 eggs

1 tsp vanilla essence

200gm self raising flour, sifted with ½ tsp salt

4 tbsp fresh milk

Method

• Grease and line a 20cm cake tin with greaseproof paper. Preheat oven to 170C

• Cream butter and sugar until light and creamy.

• Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition until mixture is light and fluffy.

• Add vanilla essence.

• Fold in sifted flour gradually to mix.

• Finally stir in milk. Mix until well combined.

• Turn out mixture into prepared tin.

• Level out mixture at the sides but allow a shallow well in the center. This is to enable the cake to level up evenly during baking.

• Bake in the preheated oven for 55-60 minutes or until cooked through when tested with a skewer.