Best Butter Cake Recipe | Moist & Soft Ghee Cake
Butter Cake or Ghee cake is easy to make, soft and moist, rich, fluffy, and delicious cake that will melt in your mouth. I bet you can't stop after eating a slice of this butter cake.
Prep Time10 minutes mins
Cook Time45 minutes mins
Total Time55 minutes mins
Course: Desserts, Snack, sweets
Cuisine: American, Indian, Japanese
Servings: 12 people
Calories: 264kcal
- 3 Eggs, separated
- 1 cup Sugar
- 200 grams Butter, room temperature
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- ¼ + ¼ cup Milk
- 1 ½ cups Flour or Maida
- 1 teaspoon Baking powder
- ½ teaspoon Salt
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (180 degrees C)
Separate egg whites and yolk.
3 Eggs, separated
Whisk egg whites to form medium stiff peaks. Add sugar in ⅓ increment and continue to whisk. When you get medium stiff peaks, set them aside.
1 cup Sugar
In another bowl with egg yellow, add butter and vanilla extract and mix until combined. Now add ¼ cup Milk, 2 to 3 tablespoon of whisked egg whites from above, and whisk until light and fluffy. For better understanding, check out the video here. 200 grams Butter, room temperature, 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract, ¼ + ¼ cup Milk
To the egg white mixture, add the flour and baking powder in 2 or 3 increments, salt, and egg yolk mixture, and fold until combined.
1 ½ cups Flour or Maida, 1 teaspoon Baking powder, ½ teaspoon Salt
Add ¼ cup milk, and continue to fold until you get a smooth batter.
¼ + ¼ cup Milk
Transfer this to a greased baking pan lined with parchment paper.
Bake for 45 minutes or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.
Let it sit for 10 minutes, remove it from the pan, and let it cool completely. Slice and Serve.
- A stand mixer or hand mixer is preferred to make this cake batter.
- It is good if you have all the ingredients at room temperature.
- Halfway through baking, cover the cake with aluminum foil to avoid the cake from browning on top. Make sure you do not cover at the beginning, as the cake batter will stick to the foil, and the cake will not rise.
- See that you have not added too much flour to the batter, as the cake will become dense and not moist.
- If you want a more decadent cake, then increase the amount of butter to another 2 to 3 tbsp.
- If you are using salted butter, you can skip adding salt to the recipe.
Calories: 264kcal | Carbohydrates: 29g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 15g | Saturated Fat: 9g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 4g | Trans Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 78mg | Sodium: 259mg | Potassium: 52mg | Fiber: 0.4g | Sugar: 17g | Vitamin A: 493IU | Calcium: 45mg | Iron: 1mg