Old Fashioned Butter Cake

By GinnyG

prep time: 10 min
Bakig time: 1 1/2 hours
Oven Temo: 350'

Ingredients

• For one cake:
• 1 cup butter
• 2 cups sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 4 eggs
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 cup buttermilk
• sifted powdered sugar

Details

Preparation time 10mins
Cooking time 100mins

Preparation

Step 1

Beat together butter and sugar until fluffy

Beat in vanilla. Add eggs one at a time, blending well after each addition.

Combine flour with baking soda and salt. Add to batter alternately with buttermilk, beginning and ending with flour.

Butter and flour an 8 cup fluted mold. Pour in batter.

Bake at 350' for about 1 1/2hours or until a tester inserted in center comes out clean. Allow cake to stand 5 minutes. Invert. Remove cake from pan and finish cooling on a rack. Dust with powdered sugar before serving.