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Old Fashioned Butter Cake Recipe

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Ingredients:  
Ingredients:  
2 cups all-purpose flour, sifted
1 + 1/4 cup sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter, softened
1 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 eggs
Directions:
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350*F. Grease and flour two 8x2" baking pans and set aside.
In a large mixing bowl sift together the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.
Add butter, milk, and vanilla. With a hand mixer, beat for 2 minutes, occasionally scraping down the sides of the bowl.
Add eggs and beat for 2 minutes more.
Pour batter into prepared pans, dividing equally between the pans. Bake 30 to 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean. Remove from oven.
Cool in the pans for 10 minutes and then turn cakes out onto a cooling rack to cool completely.
Frost with your favorite frosting. I used my favorite chocolate frosting, the one on the back of the Hersey's cocoa can.
Personal Notes:
Personal Notes:
This beautiful cake recipe is a 100 year old treasure! Discovered in an old McCall's cookbook published in 1910, you too will fall in love with this fluffy, moist, easy-to-prepare cake. I don't know if it's the tablespoon of baking powder or the four minutes total of beating, but whatever, the secret, this recipe works! This will be a recipe that I will turn to again and again.

 

 

 

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