A heavenly slice! Better than any butter cake sold in stores. Highly recommended recipe!
Ingredients
- 230g Salted Butter, Softened (Cool at 18-20C, not glossy)
- 200g Eggs, No shell (4 Medium Eggs)
- 50g + 150g Sugar
- 200g Self Raising Flour, Sifted.
- 60ml Milk
- 1 Vanilla Bean, Seeds Scraped (or 1 tsp vanilla extract)
Instructions
- Preheat oven at 150C. Prepare a 8 inch square pan. Line the base and grease the sides
(greasing helps the cake’s sides to rise well) - Separate the eggs, and place the whites into a medium sized bowl.Beat egg whites until soft peaks, gradually add 50gm sugar and beat until stiff. Set aside.
- Cream butter and 150gm sugar until pale and fluffy.Put in vanilla paste and and beat for a while.
- Put in egg yolks one by one and beat well after each addition.
- Put in half the flour and mix on low speed until incorporated.Put in milk in 2 additions and mix until well incorporated.Mix in balance of flour.
- Put half the egg whites in and mix on low speed.Pour the balance of egg whites in and FOLD.
- Pour batter into pan and level.
- Bake for 50 – 60 minutes or until skewer comes out clean.
