Photo: Basic 1-2-3-4 Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup (2 sticks) butter, at room temperature
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 eggs
- 3 cups sifted self-rising flour
- 1 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
Grease and flour 3 (9-inch) cake pans. Using an electric mixer, cream butter until fluffy. Add sugar and continue to cream well for 6 to 8 minutes. Add eggs, 1 at a time, beating well after each addition. Add flour and milk alternately to creamed mixture, beginning and ending with flour. Add vanilla and continue to beat until just mixed. Divide batter equally among prepared pans. Level batter in each pan by holding pan 3 or 4 inches above counter, then dropping it flat onto counter. Do this several times to release air bubbles and assure you of a more level cake. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes or until done. Cool in pans 5 to 10 minutes. Invert cakes onto cooling racks. Cool completely and spread cake layers with your favorite frosting to make a 3-layer cake.
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By messiah08
on January 24, 2012
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This cake was delicious. Although it only made one 9" layer for me. I baked this cake for my moms birthday and now others want me to bake for them. Thumbs up Paula!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By daisy01213
Rehoboth Beach,DE
on October 09, 2011
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I read through the reviews before I made this. Thanks to the suggestions (secrets of clairemarie from Atlanta, it was fantastic.
I sifted the flour four times and, instead of adding whiskey at the end, added Amaretto, since my friend had requested an Amaretto cake with rasberries.
It was moist and incredibly flavorable.
I can't imagine a better basic cake recipe and I will definitely make it again.
By cupcake absolute
Near Yorktown,VA.
on September 25, 2011
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This was the "Core" recipe for All Cakes my Mother ever made in Her Lifetime.Learning in a Cookery Class when about 14 years old!Here is The Perfect Basic Cake. It Never Failed.Sheer Perfection,easily remembered by the "counting".Still part of Our arsenal for Cakes over 80 years later!Miss.Paula knows,"You never mess w/Tradition".
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