Simple homemade cake recipe
Simple homemade cake recipe – Learn how to make Homemade Cake step by step on Times FoodSee? I am back, just like I promised. Ok, maybe three weeks is a bit late, but for someone who did not blog for a whole year, three weeks is a good time. So you have to credit me with that. And yes, I do remember saying that my next post would feature Chocolate Squares. I will be sharing those with you as well, but just on a later date. Why? Well let’s just say that I am in the mood for cake. 🙂 Boy, I am I in the mood for cake ! I have gone cake crazy in the last couple of weeks you could say. Let me tell you why.
For a long time now I did not have a good functioning oven. The one that I did have drove me mad. Its thermostat conked off and I became aware of this only when its temperature soared so much that the handle on the door of the oven melted and fell off. Can you beat that? Have you ever heard of anything like that? So for a long time baking came to a standstill. But then out of the blue my mom asked me if I needed a oven. She had one that my sis left behind when she moved to the States. It is a well used oven, but it works just fine and now it’s mine.
Simple homemade cake recipe
So here’s how to go about it. I followed Anushruti’s recipe verbatim.
Ingredients:
250 gm plain flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda/ sodium bicarbonate
1 tin/400gm sweetened condensed milk
100 gm butter melted
175 ml milk
2 tsp good quality vanilla extract/ or vanilla essence
Simple homemade cake recipe method:
- Preheat the oven at about 100 to 120 degrees centigrade
- Grease and dust bottom of an 8” square or 9” round cake tin.
- In a mixing bowl, assemble the flour, baking powder and baking soda, mix with a spoon and sieve once to make the mixture uniform.
- Put in the condensed milk, melted butter, vanilla essence and milk into the mixing bowl containing the dry ingredients.
- Beat with an electric hand mixer, whisk or spoon until the mixture comes together and there are no lumps. This shouldn’t take more than a minute with an electric hand mixer/beater. Be careful not to over beat the mixture as this could result into a dry cake.
- Pour the batter into the cake tin and bake for an hour at 150 degree centigrade. Since this is an eggless cake, you might find the batter on the looser side, but not to worry, as it comes out alright, soft and spongy out of the oven.
- The cake is done when a knife or cake tester comes out clean when inserted in the centre of the cake.
- Leave the hot cake in the tin for a little while, till it cools down slightly. Inverting a very hot cake is not a good idea. This could break the cake.
- Once it has cooled down a bit, invert it onto a cooling rack and let it cool further.
Refrences: https://food-n-more.blogspot.com/
Now you could enjoy it just like that with a cup of tea or coffee or, you could cut the cake horizontally and sandwich the two layers with jam. Sprinkle some icing sugar on top and viola you have a fancy Victoria Sponge Cake on your hand. Or you could apply jam to the top surface of the cake and sprinkle dessicated coconut on it. The possibilities as they are endless.