Hello everyone in this beautiful community, I bring my simple, affordable vanilla cake recipe that's so irresistibly soft, fluffy, sweet, and lovely.
Trust me when I say you don't have to break the bank for this one. The ingredients are simple, and the process is so easy that you can make this in less than 2 hours. That's mixing and baking in total.
Here's the full cake with icing
Without further ado, let's get right into the business of the day. I actually made this cake for a client in church and they loved it. Everyone who had a slice of the cake wanted more. I even got a new customer that day. So yeah, let's get right into it.
I'm not a professional baker, I learnt how to bake from home by watching YouTube videos and maybe a few skill acquisition classes that didn't really do much lol.
Ingredients
Flavour
Sugar 350g ( I always like to cut down on my sugar quantity)
Butter 500g
Flour 450g
Baking powder 1tbsp
Egg 13 (17 if they're very small)
Preservative (optional)
Milk
Baking paper. (I folded my notebook to use as a baking paper since I ran out of it. I'll show you how I did it)
Steps
Mix your butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Sieve your flour and baking powder in a separate bowl, and in another separate bowl, break your eggs. I love breaking my eggs one at a time before transferring them into a big bowl; that way, even if there's a bad egg, it won't affect the others.
Now pour your eggs into your butter and sugar mixture and mix till emulsified. When you're done, add your milk and your flour in three batches and make sure your milk comes last. At this point, you don't want to mix your batter too hard, all you need to do is fold in your batter or mix it very slowly.
Now you add your flavor and preservative if needed (I didn't add any for mine). And you're done.
Preheat your oven before use. I used the local method, so I preheated it for over 30 minutes.
Bake for 45 minutes or less and you're done.
I wanted to play with my flavours, so I divided my batter into two, and made one strawberry/vanilla /milk emulsion while the other is Buttermilk/milk emulsion/Madagascar vanilla. They all tasted nice but I would say the strawberry wasn't my fave.
The milk emulsion is inside the banana foster Clark bottle. I bought the retail one.
So here's a funny story lol, before now, I would break my eggs directly into my batter without checking if they're bad or not, until one day when I bought half a crate of eggs, and inside the crate, two of the eggs were bad. I just did my normal thing where I would normally just break the eggs directly into my batter. That was when I broke the first bad egg into the batter.
I'm sure you know what that means for the whole other eggs inside the batter hahaha. Thank God I hadn't mixed my flour then, and it was just the butter and sugar. I had to pour out all the whole eggs inside the batter, and I poured water inside to remove the smell and any traces of egg. That was how I lost some profits on my cake. So you understand why it's good to always break and transfer your eggs before putting them into your batter.
I think I've had this same experience with milk before. This time it wasn't expired or anything, but I just think that it was the storage method that made it go bad. I was so pained because it almost made me lose a whole batch of production. So for my milk, I always have a taste of it before putting it into my batter hehe.
Here's a little tutorial on how I folded my paper
All images are mine☺️