Even though I am still a rookie in the baking department, I am slowly but surely getting the hang of things, especially baking cakes.
I love baking cakes; I find it rather easy, well, if I choose a simple recipe. I especially enjoy baking cakes in the weekends because nothing tastes better than a cup of hot coffee with a freshly baked cake–while I read through my magazines or newspaper on a Sunday morning. And then, on Monday, I can heat up my leftover cake in the microwave for 10 seconds and have myself a nice breakfast to beat my Monday blues and start off my hectic work week on the right foot. I love cakes, and now I love baking them…
One of the cakes I absolutely love is butter cake–plain old simple but always good butter cake. It calls for really common ingredients that everyone has in their fridge or pantry, and that totally fits my bill in terms of convenience.
For butter cake, I used to cheat with store-bought yellow cake mix–Duncan Hines, Pillsbury, or Betty Crocker. Now I can just bake butter cake at home.
Love Baking? Try these baking recipes from Rasa Malaysia
Adapted from About.com Southern Food
Ingredients:
1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
1/2 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup butter, softened
1 1/4 cups sugar
2 eggs
3/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Method:
Put all ingredients into a big bowl and use an electric hand mixer to blend all ingredients until smooth. Grease and flour a 9 x 5 inch loaf pan and transfer the batter into the baking pan. Bake at 350° for 50 – 60 minutes or until golden brown and a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.
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Those butter cake slices look so appetizing with afternoon coffee right now.
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Hey RM – I don’t know how you do it but I want to make all your posts. I have a big pot of shrimp stock i made last night in the fridge for Hokkien Mee this week. I can’t wait to see how your recipe turns out for me but now I’m craving dumplings and butter cake and I haven’t even had my noodles! Maybe i can make the cake for dessert and have the dumplings next week. Keep up the great work!
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Coffee and cake…sigh..sounds fabulous especially for breakfast!!!
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The butter cake looks good! I have never made butter cake. I want to start doing some more baking.
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You’re inspiring me to do some baking — these are the kinds of cakes that are wonderful to have on hand when friends drop in for afternoon tea. Some day I will bake and bake, and fill my freezer!
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Some things are best left simple! this looks great Bee:)
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Thay’s a good simple recipe :)
Cake for breakfast! That sounds like me a few years ago.. :p
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very simple, but so good. You could also add lemon juice or rhum ;-)
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rasa malaysia,
Wow, you’re into baking now? It’s sure a breakthrough since you only cook and no bake previously. I think baking is simpler. hehe. Enjoy!:)
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i agree. Love a good old butter cake. It’s classic!
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Gong xi fa cai!
butter cake is my all time favourite too! :-)
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nothing like a simple yet hearty cake to go with that cup of hot coffee (or tea), eh? a very versatile cake too, i must say.
tad late but still, happy chinese new year, rasa malaysia!
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lovely! You don’t look like a rookie to me. I love cake too, especially butter cake and tea cake.
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I just bake a butter cake 2 months ago :) I like to bake too but sometimes lazy to clean up the messy after the baking…haha
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Nice food styling as always. I am tempted to do some baking now. Haha..
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well your butter cake looks too “pro” for a rookie in the baking department :-) i must admit i always love staring at your photos..coz even if i cant taste them for real the photos give real justice to their taste
:-) i love this butter cake simple and perfect for our tea breaks
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Hi,i am from Singapore. I have just started to learn how to bake. I would like to try out yr butter cake receipe. I am not sure whether i can get all purpose flour. Can i check is it ok if i substitute with cake flour? Thanks. Happy New Year!
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Tried your recipe last night with the help of my 3 year old son. It turned out very good! Yum!
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Yum! Butter Cake!
Happy Valentine’s Day!
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Butter cake resepi?!
I wanna try it [someday] hehehe ;)
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butter cakes, butter biscuits, i love ‘em all!
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Given the amazing things you cook up I have no doubt you will soon show us your full prowess in baking too!
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Wow, this recipe looks great! I’ll try to do it during weekend :)
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Hi Rasa, My mum has a great butter cake recipe and it’s really simple but very, very buttery. If you want, I’ll email it to you. That was one of the first cakes I ever baked and until now, it’s one of those cakes that I can whip up without a recipe on hand.
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love all your recipe, you are making me hungry……
my husband says i’m hungry because of you.
i’m going to try the shrimp recipes and cake,
yum.
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Your butter cake recipe is awesome!! I can hardly wait to hase some in the morning with my cup of tea.
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I didnt know butter cake was easy to make until i came across your butter cake recipe.
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Thanks for the fabulous recipe, extremely easy and tasty!!! Love it!!!
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Hi!
CAn i replace all-purpose flour with spelt flour?
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Hi,
i have tried your recipe. The color of the cake looks good. I followed the instruction until to the part where i had to grease and flour the base. I baked it for 60 mins but the bottom half have a layer of slight soggy. Could you advise on what is the cause of it?
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i love baking. i am a certified accountant and gave it up for baking goodies to sell. i did good but other preoccupations kept it on hold. i love butter cake. you can give it a rum glaze to make it better.
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Hi RM, I L-O-V-E all your recipes! I am an Malaysian now residing in Istanbul, Turkey. Though I can’t try all your recipes (too bad that I can’t find certain ingredients here in Istanbul), just looking at the photos helps to quench the thirst, well, the appetite. Haa. Just a question, the oven degree used in your baking recipes, in Ferenheit or Celsius? Big Hugs!
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Rasa Malaysia replied:
Annie – thanks so much. It’s in Farenheit. :)
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It would be good if the measurement for butter cake recipe is in weight. How much is 3/4 cup butter? 250 g?
Thanks
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Have tried this recipe of yours yesterday, my family really enjoyed it!!
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I try to bake your buttter cake,according to recipes.it turn out inside so wet.200 temp
60mins.please do let me know what wrong baking.
thanks,
winnie
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Rasa Malaysia replied:
I don’t know, the butter cake recipe is from About.com. It works for me every time.
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That is a very good recipe. I actually added a little bit of ginger (which is good for the digestive) and it came out tasting delicious!
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This is the third butter cake recipe I’ve tried and I’m still having trouble figuring out why they all turned out wet but cooked on the inside. This recipe was edible albeit looked totally different from the picture posted. How do you get a butter cake to turn out fluffy and dry? Can somebody with experience pls advise?
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Rasa Malaysia replied:
Hi Peng, I am not sure why. The only reason I can think of is the butter because different butter has different water/moisture level. If yours is too wet, then use lesser butter. I always use this recipe and it works fine for me, just as pictured.
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Peng replied:
I’m beaming from ear to ear as I write this because I’m now able to savour this butter cake in its true form. Thank you for the advise. I reduce the butter by a third and I believe this is it. The butter I use really do have a higher moisture level than ordinary butter. I noticed that when I tried making some crumble for an apple crumble. The butter cake tastes truly truly wonderful – I’m happy again. Thank you so much for the recipe and advise – it tastes as good as it looks!
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Rasa Malaysia replied:
Peng – I am so glad it finally works for you. Hooray!
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