Here is a classic butter cake recipe from California Pizza Kitchen that you can recreate easily at home. This sweet dessert is perfect for a get-together and your friends will love it. Serve this butter cake with vanilla ice cream. This cake can also be used as a base for delicious strawberry cake.
The cake forms a crisp golden-brown crust that makes it beautiful outside and it is evenly soft and yummy inside. Enjoy this dessert at dinner with family.
Ingredients
- 2 sticks unsalted butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 cup buttermilk
How to make butter cake
Preheat oven at 375F. Line a 9-inch baking cake pan with parchment paper and butter the sides and bottom. Sprinkle some sugar on the sides and bottom of the pan.
Add butter and sugar to the bowl of a stand mixer and beat until fluffy. Add the flour and baking powder gradually and mix until it is well combined.
Add eggs one by one and beat again. Add vanilla, almond extract, and buttermilk and beat until the batter is light and fluffy.
Transfer the batter to the cake pan. Bake for 50 minutes until the cake is golden brown.
Let the cake cool for 5 minutes. Then remove it from pan and place it on the cooling rack.
Serve this delicious butter cake with vanilla ice cream.
California Pizza Kitchen Butter Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 sticks unsalted butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 1/2 cup flour
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 3 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 1 cup buttermilk
Instructions
- Preheat oven at 375F. Line a 9-inch baking cake pan with parchment paper and butter the sides and bottom. Sprinkle some sugar on the sides and bottom of the pan.
- Add butter and sugar to the bowl of a stand mixer and beatuntil fluffy. Add the flour and baking powder gradually and mix until it is well combined.
- Add eggs one by one and beat again. Add vanilla, almond extract, and buttermilk and beat until the batter is light and fluffy.
- Transfer the batter to the cake pan. Bake for 50 minutes until the cake is golden brown.
- Let the cake cool for 5 minutes. Then remove it from pan and place it on the cooling rack.
- Serve this delicious butter cake with vanilla ice cream.
