You will love this delicious 1-2-3-4 cake recipe.
Named for the amounts of the four main ingredients--butter, sugar, flour, and eggs--it's an old-fashioned yellow cake you'll make again and again.
Like most American butter cakes, you'll make a 1-2-3-4 cake using the creaming method. You can use a stand mixer or a hand mixer. No need to be super fancy!
Look how rich and thick the batter is. Compared to more modern cakes, this old-fashioned version contains more eggs, and more egg = more emulsifiers for smooth batter.
Like their pound cake cousin, the layers bake up with a thin, crisp crust.
You can trim this off before stacking and frosting, or you can leave it.
I trim it and eat it as a snack.