Mummy’s Basic cake recipe

My first baking lessons where given by my mom. She use to make yummy rum caked for Christmas in her old fashioned round oven.  We use to all relish it. And the place we grew up cake make was not very common. So she use to be a super baker in her own way.  Her underlined theory was there are 4 main ingredient for cake i.e butter, sugar, egg & flour. And all should be in equal proportion. In a way this is drilled into my head.

Ingredient

200gm – flour/maida

200gm – granulated sugar

200gm – butter

200gm – egg (ie. 4eggs)

1tsp – baking power

1tsp – vanilla essence

Preparation

• Sever flour & baking powder together
• Powder the granulated sugar
• Preheat the oven to 180⁰c for 5 min

Method

• In a bowl beat the soft butter and sugar powder ( 2 min with a beater or 5/6 min with hand)
• To this add egg and beat. ( 3 min with beater or about 8 min by hand)
• Add essence and mix
• Now fold in the flour.
• Grease and dust a 8” x 8” round container
• Pour the mixture into it.
• Bake at 18⁰0c for 45 min

Tips : 

To check if the cake is baked from inside insert a tooth pick or a skewer, if it comes clean then the cake is baked properly. If not you can keep it for 5 more min.