
EASY BUTTER CAKE
Ingredients
- 250 g (1 cup+2 tbsp) unsalted butter softened at room temperature
- 210 g (1+3/4 cups) powdered sugar
- 5 eggs medium size room temperature
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 240 g (2 cups) all purpose flour
- 80 g (2/3 cup) cornstarch
- 4 g (1 tsp) baking powder
- 2 pinches of salt
- 120-140 g (1/2 cup + 1 tbsp) milk room temperature. Depending on the size of your eggs and on your flour, you may need 120 or 140 g of milk; since you should add the milk in few times, you can decide if you need that extra tbsp of milk or not.
Instructions
- In a large bowl place the softened butter and creamy it with a spatula.
- Mix in vanilla and powdered sugar until coarsely combined, then mix with a hand mixer for about 10 minutes: you should get a very pale and fluffy butter mix. Remember to often scrape the bowl while mixing.
- Incorporate the egg one at a time, mixing every egg just until well combined without overmixing. Set aside.
- In a large bowl sift in all purpose flour, cornstarch, baking powder and a pinch of salt. Mix until combined.
- Gently incorporate in 2-3 times the flour mix into the butter mix using a spatula alternating with milk. You just need to combine the ingredients without overmixing: you should use a spatula and not a hand mixer to incorporate flour and milk.
- Place the batter into a lined 7 inch square mold with tall sides.
- Bake in preheated oven (no fan, upper+lower heat) at 160°C-320°F for about 45 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
- Slightly cool down in the pan, then transfer the cake on a wire rack and cool down completely.
- Sprinkle some powdered sugar on top (optional) and serve it slicing with a serrated knife.
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Notes
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Tips:

This Butter Cake is very easy to make but to get the best result I give you some tips:
- Use high quality butter for the best flavor. Look for a centrifuged butter and not skimmed.
- You should mix long butter and sugar, using a hand mixer, until the mix turns out very pale and fluffy, as you can see in the picture above.

It’s very important to NOT overmix the flour mix: for this reason you should incorporate it gently using a spatula and not a hand mixer: if you don’t overmix the flour, you’ll get fluffy crumbs a very soft and moist cake.

Do not skip cornstarch and do not substitute it with all purpose flour: cornstarch helps to get a fluffy cake with less gluten development.
If you have cake flour – that it’s mixed with cornstarch – you can substitute all purpose flour and cornstarch with about 320 g of cake flour.