Categories: Desserts
Ingredients
- 2 cups cake flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 3/4 teaspoon salt
- 3/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1 3/4 cups sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, cut into 8 pieces, room temperature
- 1 cup minus one tablespoon buttermilk
- 1 tablespoon vanilla
Directions
- Preheat oven to 375
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Adjust oven rack to middle position
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Insert the metal blade in food processor.
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Place flour, baking powder, salt and soda in bowl and process for 2 seconds
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Reserve mixture
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Process sugar and eggs for 1 minute or until mixture is thick and light colored
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Add butter and process for 1 minute or until it is fluffy, stopping the machine once to scrape down the bowl
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With machine running, pour buttermilk and vanilla through feed tube
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Remove cover and add reserved flour mixture
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Blend the batter by turning the machine on and off for 4 to 6 times or until flow just disappears
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Do not over process
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Divide batter among 3 buttered and floured 6" cake pans or a 12 cup bundt pan
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Bake for 30 minutes or until brown and toothpick comes out clean
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Let the cake rest for 5 minutes and invert onto rack to cool
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For a lemon flavored cake, process zest of 1 lemon and 1/4 cup sugar until zest is as fine as the sugar and then proceed with the recipe