Butter Cake

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 45 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 250 g unsalted butter
• 210 g caster sugar
• 4 eggs
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 200 g self-rising flour, sifted with
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 4 tablespoons milk

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven to 170c and grease/flour a 9-inch cake pan.
• 2 cream the butter and sugar in a large mixing bowl.
• 3 add eggs one by one and beat well after each addition until light and fluffy.
• 4 add vanilla essence.
• 5 fold in the sifted flour and salt bit by bit, keep beating mixture.
• 6 add milk and mix well.
• 7 place into cake pan, making sure that the mixture is leveled, leaving a shallow well in the middle to ensure that the cake rises evenly.
• 8 bake for 45-55 minutes or until tooth pick comes out clean.