{"id":2,"slug":"1-2-3-4-cake","title":"1-2-3-4 Cake","description":"This is a traditional American recipe for a 1-2-3-4 cake, a simple form of yellow cake. The name comes from the volumetric ratio of butter to sugar, flour, and eggs.","ingredients_raw":["1 cup (240 g / 8.5 oz) butter","1 cup (240 ml / 8.1 oz) milk","1 teaspoon vanilla extract","2 cups (450 g / 16 oz) white granulated sugar","3 cups (400 g / 14 oz) all-purpose flour","3 teaspoons baking powder","3 pinches of salt","4 eggs"],"ingredients_norm":["butter","milk","vanilla extract","white granulated sugar","all purpose flour","baking powder","salt","egg"],"steps":["Preheat oven to 175 °C (350 °F)","Cream the butter and sugar together until fluffy.","Beat in the vanilla and eggs, one at a time, ensuring the batter is well mixed after each egg.","Gradually sift in the dry ingredients, alternating with small additions of the milk.","Transfer to a greased and floured baking pan.","Bake at 175 °C (350 °F), until a skewer inserted shows no moist crumbs."],"categories":["Cake recipes","Recipes for cake","Vegetarian recipes","Recipes using butter","Recipes using egg","Recipes for dessert","Recipes using baking powder","Recipes using white sugar","Recipes using all-purpose flour","Recipes using cow milk"],"prep_time_minutes":20,"cook_time_minutes":60,"total_time_minutes":80,"servings":"8–10","yield_text":null,"difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:1-2-3-4_Cake","source_ref":"4608393","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:1-2-3-4_Cake&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"6408cdfe51b6c8f7c1f71e1624aed201736b728b5a70b0860f9178e89b4423d2","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:34:55Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T17:11:31Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/1-2-3-4-cake"}