White Velvet Butter Cake: The cake

I can't recall the last time I made a traditional cake (I'm not counting the Chocolate Heart of Darkness cakes, neither box cakes)....maybe 2003 when I made a Lemon Poppyseed poundcake from this same book?

Regardless, on buying the book, Rose Levy Beranbaum's The Cake Bible, I decided to make the White Velvet Butter cake first (partly so nobody, ie dad, would complain about only chocolate things in the house and also because I had some leftover egg whites from the chocolate heart of darkness?).

For the above reasons, I have sort of documented the process. I'm not sure if I will bother with other cakes unless it is particularly different or difficult or...if I have time.

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