Recipe courtesy of Bronwen Weber
Butter Cake
- Level: Intermediate
- Yield: 6 to 8 servings
- Total: 1 hr 15 min
- Prep: 15 min
- Inactive: 15 min
- Cook: 45 min
Ingredients
9 cups granulated sugar
6 cups cake flour
1/4 cups salt
1/4 cups baking soda
2 3/4 cups solid shortening
4 cups butter
2 cups whole eggs
5 cups buttermilk
1/8 cup vanilla extract
8 cups egg whites
8 cups granulated sugar
Directions
- Preheat oven to 320 degrees F.
- Mix together sugar, flour, salt, soda, shortening and butter in the bowl of a stand mixer. Mix on 2nd speed for 3 minutes. Then add whole eggs, buttermilk and vanilla to the mixture and beat again for 3 minutes on 2nd speed. In a separate bowl, beat the egg whites and sugar into a meringue state. Then gently fold the meringue into the buttermilk mixture. Pour into 4 parchment lined sheet pans or 4 (4 by 13-inch) round cake pans. Bake until a toothpick comes out clean when inserted in the center of the cake.