California Pizza Kitchen Butter Cake (Copycat Recipe)
This California Pizza Kitchen Butter Cake (or CPK Butter Cake) is loaded with rich buttery flavor with a moist, fluffy and tender crumb. This cake is one of the best CPK copycat recipes and perhaps even better than the original one. Serve this warm butter cake with a scoop of ice cream of your choice and receive compliments from friends and family alike. This CPK recipe is the best butter cake recipe and a perfect dessert.
Take a 9-inch baking cake pan and spray it with a baking spray or apply butter on the bottom and sides of the pan. Place the liner in the bottom of the pan. Sprinkle granulated sugar on the sides and bottom of the pan.
Sift and whisk flour and baking powder. Set aside.
Take a large bowl and beat butter and sugar until creamy and fluffy.
Add the flour to the butter and beat until just combined well.
Add eggs one by one and continue beating. Add vanilla, among extract and buttermilk to the cake batter and mix until the batter is light in color.
Pour the batter to the greased pan.
Place the cake pan in the middle-rack of the oven and bake for 40 – 50 minutes until the cake is golden brown in color. Insert a toothpick in the center to check if the cake is done. If the toothpick comes out clean or with a few crumbs, the cake is ready.
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Notes
Butter: use good quality butter to get the best results for this cake.Buttermilk: do not omit or replace buttermilk in this recipe. The buttermilk helps generating an acidic reaction with baking powder helping with the rise of the cake and creating the moist, fluffy crumb. The buttermilk also helps to counter the gluten in the flour in the batter.