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Butter Cake - Four Ingredients

Warning! The more I look at this and Jeri and I discuss it, this sounds like a mess waiting to happen. Not only is it missing baking powder or some other leavening agent, there is no liquid but a lot of flour. I'm not willing to waste a whole pound of butter on it.

Not a box mix cake, this is very basic. It is from the Four Ingredient Cookbook by Linda Coffee and Emily Cale.

1 cup butter, softened
2 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1 egg, slightly beaten
Mix ingredients. Place dough in a greased and floured round cake pan. Bake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes. Serve warm with fresh fruit.

Here's an easy Apple Cream Pie:

Unbaked pie shell
4 cups apples, peeled and diced
1 cup sugar
1 cup half and half
2 tablespoons flour

Combine all ingredients. Pour into the unbaked pie shell. Bake 45 to 60 minutes at 350 degrees, until brown and the apples are tender.

posted on Aug 21, 2010 9:18 PM ()

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I used to have a recipe for cake that just combined ingredients and sounds like this one except it called for half a cup of shortening and 3 teaspoons baking powder. I may try it this way.

comment by elderjane on Aug 23, 2010 6:26 AM ()

I'm wondering about all that flour with no liquid ingredient in addition to no baking powder. I was thinking maybe it turns into sort of a gooey butter cake, but was going to do some research by looking at other cake recipes to see if any of them come close.

reply by troutbend on Aug 23, 2010 9:08 AM ()

Does it matter that there is no baking powder in the cake?

comment by elderjane on Aug 22, 2010 10:29 AM ()

I don't know. They were so busy limiting it to 4 ingredients maybe they forgot. With no leavening, you'd think there might be a special way of combining the ingredients such as separating the eggs and folding in the stiffly beaten whites, maybe creaming the butter and and sugar. I usually think of this particular Four Ingredients cookbook as written for Tealstar by Tealstar, so good cooking isn't necessarily the priority. I am going to make it today just to see how it comes out, and am not sure if I will separate the eggs or follow the directions as given. I hate to waste a whole cup of butter on a failure.

reply by kitchentales on Aug 22, 2010 10:53 AM ()

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