Description
Grandma’s classic Old Fashioned Butter Cake melts hearts with its rich, velvety chocolate frosting. Moist layers promise pure comfort, inviting sweet memories of nostalgic family gatherings you’ll savor with each delightful bite.
Ingredients
Scale
Cake Ingredients:
- 2 cups (480 ml) all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup (115 g) butter
- 1 1/4 cups (250 g) sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup (240 ml) milk
- 1 tablespoon (15 ml) baking powder
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) salt
- 1 teaspoon (5 ml) vanilla extract
Instructions
- Calibrate oven to 350F (175C) and prepare two 8-inch baking pans by coating with butter and flour.
- Sift dry ingredients together in a spacious mixing vessel, creating a uniform powder mixture.
- Introduce softened butter, milk, and vanilla extract to the dry ingredients, using an electric mixer to blend thoroughly for approximately 2 minutes, ensuring sides are scraped periodically.
- Incorporate eggs into the batter, continuing to mix for an additional 2 minutes until smooth and well-integrated.
- Distribute batter evenly between prepared pans, maintaining balanced volume.
- Transfer pans to preheated oven and bake for 30-35 minutes, monitoring until a test probe emerges clean when inserted into cake’s center.
- Allow cakes to rest in pans for 10 minutes, providing initial cooling and structural stabilization.
- Carefully extract cakes from pans and transfer to wire cooling rack, permitting complete temperature reduction.
- Apply preferred chocolate frosting, covering cake surfaces with smooth, even layers for a decadent finish.
Notes
- Softening butter at room temperature ensures smoother cake batter and more even mixing, preventing lumpy textures.
- Sifting dry ingredients helps eliminate clumps and creates a lighter, more delicate cake crumb with better texture.
- Room temperature eggs blend more evenly and help create a more uniform cake structure, preventing dense or uneven baking.
- For a gluten-free version, substitute all-purpose flour with a 1:1 gluten-free baking blend to maintain the cake’s classic texture.
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 35 minutes
- Category: Desserts
- Method: Baking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 8
- Calories: 320 kcal
- Sugar: 23 g
- Sodium: 240 mg
- Fat: 13 g
- Saturated Fat: 8 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 4 g
- Trans Fat: 0.5 g
- Carbohydrates: 44 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 5 g
- Cholesterol: 70 mg