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Butter Cake
Total time70 min
Prep25 min
Cook45 min
Yield8 servings
DifficultyMedium
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ChefFatima Jammoul

Butter Cake

Butter cake — a light, delicious treat everyone loves. Give it to your kids for school, or enjoy it with tea or instant coffee.

Butter cake — couldn't be easier

Ingredients

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  • 3 eggs
  • 100 g butter at room temperature
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup milk at room temperature
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tsp vanilla
  • To make cotton candy from Fatima, here is the link Cotton Candy

Method

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  1. Mix the dry ingredients together (except the sugar) and sift them.
  2. Place the butter and sugar in the mixer and beat, then add the eggs one at a time and continue beating.
  3. Add the milk and beat, then add the dry ingredients and beat.
  4. Preheat the oven for about 10 minutes to 170°C.
    Timers: 10 min
  5. Grease the cake pan with a little butter and dust with flour, then pour the butter cake batter into the pan.
  6. Bake until done, taking care not to open the oven to test it before half an hour.
  7. Serve the cake once it has cooled.
  8. To make cotton candy from Fatima, here's the link: cotton candy.

Recipe tags

DessertsInternationalVegetarianNut freeMediumLong cook

Notes and serving ideas

  • Chocolate Bounty
  • Cotton Candy

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