OVERVIEW:
Ultimate Double Layer Butter Cake Recipe
(Shown with
Seven-Minute Almond Icing)

By Sarah Phillips

Makes two 9- x 2-inch round layers or 36 standard-size cupcakes.

Suggested Frostings: Seven-Minute Almond Icing (shown),
Easy Chocolate Icing or the
White Chocolate-Raspberry Ganache Frosting

The Ultimate Butter Cake makes a great wedding cake! As reported by KelleyinColorado, Wedding Cake Designer: The Ultimate Buttercake is a huge hit with everyone! I've taken it to five meetings ... and all of them loved it and ALL of them want at least one tier of it! I haven't found a filling it doesn't go with either! I love that it uses regular old (all-purpose) flour! What a money saver that is for me. I have added raspberries, strawberries and nuts to it...no sinking cakes, no sinking fruit! Hurrah!!!!!

The Ultimate Butter Cake Class was a success and many thanks to you for helping or coaching me to make this cake so successful...I got so many compliments about the cake and how moist it was... they all wanted to know what I added to the cake to make it so moist and airy and fluffy... Some said that this is the best one I ever made...I even had a piece and yesssssssssss it was breath taking and sooooooooooooooooo delicious.  I am going to make this over and over. I would recommend anyone to your (baking911school.com) website and to try out this wonderful and delicious cake and (White Chocolate Raspberry Ganache) frosting recipe. Gloria, via email, 9-30-04

Description:
This course is written for the home baker who wants to learn how to make the ultimate moist, buttery and tender butter cake. Many of my baking911.com visitors 
Ask (Me) Sarah for an all-purpose, basic cake they can dress-up for special celebrations or down for an everyday snack cake. Make my The Ultimate Buttery Crumb Coffee Cake Recipe - it uses this Ultimate Double Layer Butter Cake Recipe as its base!

The ideal butter cake should have a level or slightly rounded top after baking, an evenly browned crust, and a fine-grained crumb (inside texture) that is soft, smooth, and resilient when touched. The cake should be somewhat sweet, light, tender, and slightly moist. But, many ask: "Why aren't my made-from-scratch cakes as light and fluffy as the kind I make from a mix?" Well, here's your chance to learn how.

Learn the right way to make butter cakes with my Ultimate Butter Cake Recipe with techniques that you can apply to any recipe. I must have gone through 30 pounds of butter fine-tuning my Ultimate Butter Cake over and over again to get it right.

Other Suggested Butter Cake Classes: The Ultimate Chocolate Butter Cake

Who should take this course?
If you want to master the basics of baking, learning to make a butter cake is a the best place to start. They are what most of us think of when we think of cake; they're the old faithful and reliable members of everyone's recipe collection. Nine times out of ten, if you're making a birthday cake or cupcakes, you'll use a butter cake recipe, baked with common ingredients that you already have or can find easily. The texture is sturdy -- especially the pound cake's, the mother of all butter cakes, whose denseness is perfect for making Bundt or character cakes. A butter cake's fluid batter allows you to bake it in practically any shape imaginable.

Objectives
The student who takes this course will learn how to:

Every Class Includes: