| "Every good cook needs a good yellow
cake recipe. This cake is in between dense and
light...perfect for just about any dessert creation that
begins with a yellow cake! Let your culinary imagination
go wild!
Yellow Cake
1 pound unsalted butter, softened
2 1/2 cups sugar
5 eggs
4 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1 ½ Tbsp. baking powder
1 3/4 cups whole milk
1 Tbsp. vanilla
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Grease and flour
your cake pans.* In a large mixing bowl beat the butter
and the sugar until smooth. Add the eggs one at a time,
beating after each addition. Sift the flour, salt and
baking powder. Add the dry ingredients in thirds,
alternating with the liquid ingredients. Pour the batter
into your prepared pans and bake for the amount of time
necessary for the size pans you are using. Cool the
cakes on a wire rack for 15 minutes. Un-mold thecakes
from pans and continue cooling.
Chef's note: This cake makes enough batter for three
9 inch pans. Or a thick 11"X 13" cake. I
recommend you experiment with the sizes. I will often
make individual cakes using small decorative molds.
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