Tricks for baking the best-ever butter cake. Baking a perfect butter cake requires some attention to detail, but don't let that scare you. It's surprisingly easy to make this cake at home and nail ...

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Gooey butter cake is a sweet exploration of textures. While you can certainly make it from scratch with a yeast-raised crust layer, you can also skip the waiting and used boxed yellow cake instead.

If your cake recipe uses oil, great, dump it in, but butter should get a zap in the microwave first with a few minutes of cooling time to bring down the temp a smidge. Then add it to the blender.

In the batter, butter ensures a moist cake crumb. I prefer unsalted butter in baking, but if you only have salted butter, eliminate the ¼ teaspoon of salt from the batter. Sugar .

In a large bowl, combine the yeast mixture, warm milk, a balance of sugar, butter, egg, salt, cinnamon, nutmeg, almond extract, lemon zest, and orange zest. Blend in 1½ cups of flour.