Vanilla Cake

This is a basic eggless vanilla cake recipe without any butter or condensed milk in it. I bookmarked this cake long time back from Divya’s Blog – the baking encyclopaedia for me. Today made it and came out really well. The frosting is such a simple one,perfect for the beginners like me!  I dint made any changes, made it as such as I am always scared in experimenting in baking ventures. I myself bake once in a blue moon, so if it doesn’t comes out well, then I will never try again… 

INGREDIENTS

All purpose flour/maida	1 & 1/2 cups minus 3 tblsp
Corn flour	3 tblsp
Sugar	3/4 cup
Baking powder	1 tsp
Baking soda	1/2 tsp
Oil	1/2 cup
Curd	1 cup
Vanilla essence	1 tsp

Method

Pre heat oven to 180 oC. Sieve maida with corn flour twice to ensure even mixing. Mix curd and sugar in a bowl well. Add the baking powder and baking soda and let it rest for 2 – 3 minutes. You can see the mixture now to be slightly frothy. Now mix oil and vanilla well to it. Add the flour one tablespoon at a time and mix well. After mixing all the flour, pour it in the baking pan,greased with oil and dusted with a tsp of flour. Bake for 35-40 minutes or until the toothpick inserted inside comes out clean. Mine took 40 minutes for getting done. let it be in the pan for 5 minutes and invert carefully in a wire rack for cooling.

If you want you can enjoy this simple vanilla cake as such with tea /coffee. Otherwise if you want you can frost it with the chocolate frosting given below.

INGREDIENTS

Butter	1/4 cup
Coco powder	1/3 cup
Milk	1/6 cup
Powdered sugar	1 & 1/2 cup
Vanilla essence	1/2 tsp

Method

Melt butter in a pan in low flame and add the coco powder, mix to well. Add the powdered sugar,milk and vannila and stir well to get a spreading consistency frosting. Trim the crusted top and apply the frosting all over with a cutlery knife. Decorate with silver/golden beads if desired. I used ready made sugar candied flowers.

Let it set for some time before you dig in!! I hope I learn the techniques of applying the frosting by experience, still for the first time, this is not bad right?

Notes

You can use 1 & 1/2 cup cake flour instead of maida and cornflour. Use icing sugar for frosting if you have. If you powder,make sure its powdered very fine. If you don’t like oil in this cake, you can try replacing with 1/2 cup melted butter. All the aroma gets incorporated well the next day :)

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