Butter Cake with Browned Butter Frosting

This is like special occasion cake. Or cake made with sad tears because you know you are going to sit and eat all of it alone while watching a Korean soap opera where the mean mother hates the girl and the boy is rich and someone always ends up either dying tragically or in the hospital and then some unexpected lost love or sibling appears and throws a wrench in everyones plans and the stock market crashes around the family business and a soldier appears from the 14th century to rescue the girl from the hospital. In either 16 episodes or 54 episodes. Have kleenex on hand.

Eat it. Alone or with friends. It's delicious and it came from the inside of a Land o Lakes butter box.

Butter Cake

3/4 cup sugar

3/4 cup butter, softened 

4 egg yolks

2 tsp vanilla

In separate bowl mix:

2 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/8 tsp salt

Have ready:

3/4 cup half n half

Mix sugar and butter until creamy. Add egg yolks and vanilla. Mix well. Beat while gradually alternating and adding the flour mix and half n half. Batter will be thick. Divide into greased and floured cake pans. Bake at 350 for 20-25 minutes. Cool for 5 minutes then remove from pans and cool on rack. Make frosting. (or a 13x9 pan bake for 25-30 minutes)

Frosting

1/4 cup butter

3 cups powdered sugar

2 tsp vanilla

3-4 TBS milk

In 1 quart saucepan melt butter over medium low heat until lightly browned. 4-5 minutes. In small mixer bowl combine butter with sugar and vanilla. Mix well then add milk slowly until frosting is spreadable. Eat some frosting to make sure it tastes okay. Use a cookie or a vanilla wafer to test it. It's okay, just do it. Then frost your cooled cake if you have some frosting left.