Recipe: Butter Cake

(Click the above to view all pictures. Best viewed with Internet Explorer 7.) Even though I am still a rookie in the baking department, I am slowly but surely getting the hang of things, especially baking cakes. I love baking cakes; I find it rather easy, well, if I choose a simple recipe. I especially enjoy baking cakes in the weekends because nothing tastes better than a cup of hot coffee with a freshly baked cake--while I read through my magazines or newspaper on a Sunday morning. And then, on Monday, I can heat up my leftover cake in the microwave for 10 seconds and have myself a nice breakfast to beat my Monday blues and start off my hectic work week on the right foot. I love cakes, and now I love baking them... One of the cakes I absolutely love is butter cake--plain old simple but always good butter cake. It calls for really common ingredients that everyone has in their fridge or pantry, and that totally fits my bill in terms of convenience. For butter cake, I used to cheat with store-bought yellow cake mix--Duncan Hines, Pillsbury, or Betty Crocker. Now that I have the following butter cake recipe, there is no turning back. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Love Baking? Try these baking recipes from Rasa Malaysia Banana Nut Muffins Banana Bread/Banana Cake Lemon Chiffon Cake Blueberry Pound Cake Red Lobster Cheddar Bay Biscuits :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Recipe: Butter Cake Adapted from About.com Southern Food Ingredients: 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour 1/2 tablespoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 3/4 cup butter, softened 1 1/4 cups sugar 2 eggs 3/4 cup milk 1 teaspoon vanilla extract Method: Put all ingredients into a big bowl and use an electric hand mixer to blend all ingredients until smooth. Grease and flour a 9 x 5 inch loaf pan and transfer the batter into the baking pan. Bake at 350° for 50 - 60 minutes or until golden brown and a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean.