Golden Butter Cake
The gold in our Green and Gold Green Bay Packer's Cake comes from a golden butter cake. It's the perfect color!Yield: 1 (9 inch) round cake
Servings: 8 people
Ingredients
- 1 ¾ c unbleached all-purpose flour
- 2 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup milk
- 2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ½ c unsalted butter, room temperature
- 1 c sugar
- 2 eggs, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon yellow food coloring
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350ºF. Grease 1 9 inch round cake pan.
- In a medium bowl mix flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside.
- Mix milk and vanilla in a small bowl. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, cream butter until light. Add sugar and cream until fluffy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.
- Add dry ingredients, alternately with milk, beginning and ending with the dry mixture. Mix until moistened.
- Add food coloring and mix until the color is even.
- Poor batter into prepared pan.
- Bake at 350ºF for 30-35 minutes, or until the cake is springy to the touch and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean.
- Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes before removing from pan and cooling completely on a wire tack.