Butter Cakes

A butter cake is a cake in which one of the main ingredients is butter. Butter cakes consist of taking the most basic of ingredients butter,sugar, eggs, flour, and a leavening agent ( baking powder or baking soda) and transforming them into a baked good.

These cakes are considered one of the quintessential cakes in American baking. They find their origins in the English pound cake, which traditionally used equal parts of butter, flour, sugar, and eggs to produce a heavy, rich cake.