Butter cake

Butter cake

Hazelnut brown butter cake
Main ingredients	Butter, sugar, flour, eggs

A butter cake is a cake in which one of the main ingredients is butter. Butter cake is baked with basic ingredients: butter, sugar, eggs, flour, and leavening agents such as baking powder or baking soda. It is considered as one of the quintessential cakes in American baking. Butter cake originated from the English pound cake, which traditionally used equal amounts of butter, flour, sugar, and eggs to bake a heavy, rich cake.

The invention of baking powder and other chemical leavening agents during the 19th century substantially increased the flexibility of this traditional pound cake by introducing the possibility of creating lighter, fluffier cakes using these traditional combinations of ingredients, and it is this transformation that brought about the modern butter cake.

Butter cakes are traditionally made using a creaming method, in which the butter and sugar are first beaten until fluffy to incorporate air into the butter. Eggs are then added gradually, creating an emulsion, followed by alternating portions of wet and dry ingredients. Butter cakes are typically rich and moist when stored at room temperature, but they tend to stiffen, dry out, and lose flavor when refrigerated, making them unsuitable for filling or frosting in advance with ingredients that must be refrigerated, such as cream cheese frosting and pastry cream.

The modern way to make Butter cake is by separating the egg white and egg yolk, in a bowl mix the butter, egg yolk and sugar together and beat until fluffy to incorporate air into the butter, beat the egg whites to soft peaks before folding into the mix and gently folding in flour a little at a time.Finally pour into a cake tin lined with parchment paper. Pre-heat the oven to 160 degrees Celsius or (320 °F) (Depending on your type of oven baking time will vary)