Name: Butter Cake Bread Recipe
Ingredients: ¾ cup of milk at room temperature; ½ teaspoon of salt; 1 ½ cups of sugar; ½ cup of butter (1 stick) at room temperature; 2 eggs at room temperature; 2 teaspoons of baking powder; 2 teaspoons of vanilla extract; 1 ½ cups of all purpose-flour

AuthorSteve Nubie

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Butter cake is actually a cake bread or batter bread recipe. It includes a half a cup of butter and a cup and a half of sugar as ingredients and the final product before baking has a batter-like consistency. This is due to the fact that baking powder is used instead of yeast. Because the batter is without yeast it creates some challenges for anyone using their bread machine to make this recipe.

Bread machines typically have a predisposition to yeast breads. Most of the settings have a rising cycle towards the end of most settings that subjects the yeast-based dough ball to heat in the bread pan to encourage the yeast to become active and raise the dough. That’s a bad idea with a cake bread or batter bread recipe. Baking powder and/or baking soda do not cause the batter to rise before baking. In fact, subjecting the batter to heat before it is subject to full baking temperature will stiffen and harden the loaf. Fortunately, some bread machines have a dedicated cake bread or batter bread setting and the rising step is skipped, and the batter goes directly to the full baking cycle.

If your machine does not have a dedicated cake bread or batter bread setting you can use a pasta dough or cookie dough setting to mix the batter. Those settings also do not have a rising cycle. You would then finish the batter in a buttered baking pan in the oven. If you have one, you should use a Pyrex glass bread pan for baking. Unlike a metal bread pan which can burn the sugars given the higher heat and time for batter breads, a glass bread pan provides a kinder, gentler and more even heat. If all else fails, you can use the dough setting but make sure you pour out the batter before the rising cycle begins. A rising cycle is typical with a standard dough setting because of the assumption that you’re making a yeast bread.

This bread makes a great dessert bread, breakfast bread and is surprisingly good with savory dishes like pot roast, stews and wild game like venison. It also goes great with poultry from ducks to chickens to turkey. It’s a standard serving at tea-time with coffee or tea or as an after-school snack.

INGREDIENTS:

¾ cup of milk at room temperature

½ teaspoon of salt

1 ½ cups of sugar

½ cup of butter (1 stick) at room temperature

2 eggs at room temperature

2 teaspoons of baking powder

2 teaspoons of vanilla extract

1 ½ cups of all purpose-flour

DIRECTIONS:

In Your Bread Machine

Add all of the ingredients to the bread machine bread pan in the order indicated in the ingredients list and select the batter bread or cake bread setting for a 1-pound loaf.

it asks for a crust setting, select medium crust.

When done, remove from the bread pan and let rest on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Slice and serve.

In The Oven:

Select a setting that does not have a rising cycle at the end of the setting such as a pasta dough or cookie dough setting. If you use the standard dough cycle, pour out the batter into a lightly buttered 8-inch square baking pan after the kneading or mixing cycle, and before the rising cycle begins.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (205 degrees C). Line bottom with parchment or wax paper, or dust lightly with flour.

Bake at 400 degrees F (205 degrees C) for 45 to 50 minutes or until a toothpick, wooden skewer or knife can be inserted into the center and comes out dry. It it’s wet, bake another ten minutes and repeat until the insert comes out dry.

Place pan onto wire rack to cool. Remove from pan with spatulas and slice and serve

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