Old-School Butter Cake

 Courtney Adamo always has great recipes to share. Here is one more from her blog.   and she shares it as a birthday cake. Okay I need to differ here. This is not a birthday cake I think. Let me warn you that this cake has a ton of sugar and butter. It tastes real buttery, like Auntie Mildred (Tía Mildred) type of cakes, old-school type. It is not a light cake, it's a heavy one.

But with that said, this recipe is just so fun because it makes you feel like you are making a true cake, and old-fashioned cake, the way butter cakes you should just be. And it actually is an old Australian recipe as she explains in her blog, that it has come from someone called Nanny Luff and the recipe was shared by her grand-daughter. 

So anyway, this recipe comes I'd like to think, from the origins of Australia, perhaps on the slopes of New South Wales, like Kenton's Nan. Here it is:

INGREDIENTS:
-3 cups of flour (360 grs) 

-6 teaspoons of baking powder.

-1 cup of butter (240 grams)

-2 cups of sugar (400 grams)

-4 eggs.

-1 cup of milk. (235 ml)

STEPS: 

1. Preheat oven to 160 degrees.

2. Cream with a hand-mixer the sugar and the butter. The hand-mixer is the tool of this recipe.

3. Now add one egg, and beat, and another, and beat, etc. until you do the 4 eggs.

4. Now add half the flour (with the baking powder already combined!) and beat with hand-mixer. 

5. Now add half of the milk and mix.

6. Now add the rest of the flour and the rest of the milk and combine.

7. Grease and flour a container. I used a medium pot, and add mix.

8. Stick to oven for about 1 hour. It will rise a bit.

9. Now for decoration you can add anything. Courtney says she mixes 1 cup of caster sugar, with a few drops of milk and one fruit grated, and then pours it over. I made mine with kiwi and it was real fun.

Okay, I am not sure at all, I will make this cake again I have to be honest. It has way too much butter for me, nothing less and nothing more than 1/4 of a kilo! But it is a good recipe.  And look at that!! that is one good-looking babe! 

And that is a Australian house from the 50s, where we spent Christmas, across Kent's grandma and her mission.