Butter cake

Butter cake

Hazelnut brown butter cake
Main ingredients Butter, sugar, flour, eggs
Cookbook: Butter cake  Media: Butter cake
Gooey butter cake

A butter cake is a cake in which one of the main ingredients is butter, hence the name. 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.[1] 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.[2]

History

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.[3]

Recipe

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 for making Butter cake is by separating the egg white and egg yolk, mix butter, egg yolk and sugar together and first beaten until fluffy to incorporate air into the butter, on the other hand beat the egg white until fluffy, flour are then added gradually, followed by alternating portions of wet and dry ingredients as well as the fluffy egg white. Finally pour into the mold. Pre-heat the oven for one hundred and sixty degrees Celsius or (320 °F) (if you don't have the oven with fan), bake it with one hundred and sixty degrees Celsius (320 °F).

References

  1. "Simple Home Recipe". Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  2. "Pound Cakes". Retrieved 4 February 2015.
  3. "The History of Cake". Retrieved 4 February 2015.

See also


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