This Irish tea cake is a simple butter cake that's great with tea or coffee. It's easy to make, pretty, and very delicious.
Ingredients
- white sugar: 1 cup
- butter: 0.5 cup (softened)
- eggs: 2 piece
- ½ teaspoons vanilla extract: 1 piece
- ¾ cups all-purpose flour: 1 piece
- baking powder: 2 tsp
- salt: 0.5 tsp
- milk: 0.5 cup (if needed)
- confectioners' sugar for dusting: 0.25 cup
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Stages of cooking
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour a 9-inch round pan.
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Cream sugar and butter together in a mixing bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs, one at a time, mixing until fully incorporated after each addition. Stir in vanilla.
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Combine flour, baking powder, and salt in a mixing bowl. Stir dry ingredients into wet ingredients alternately with milk, adding 1 to 2 tablespoons more milk if batter is too stiff. Spread batter evenly into the prepared pan.
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Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean, 30 to 35 minutes. Cool in the pan on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a serving plate and cool to room temperature, 20 to 30 minutes. Dust with confectioners' sugar right before serving.
