For those of you who know me quite well, know that I'm a dessert person. So, I can never seem to be like those model slim girls and am generally on the....what call?? Voluptuous side??? Heheheheh....
Anyway, I have made Chinese New Year cookies before but have never tried making a cake and I thought making a simple cake like a butter cake would be a good start.
The last time I made cookies, the batter were all hand mixed and believe you me, it can be quite tiring. So, 2 weeks ago, I decided to invest in a cheap mixer to give making a cake a shot and of course, to make Yuli and my life much easier in mixing cookie batters. Hhehehehehehehe.....
Anyway, I have made Chinese New Year cookies before but have never tried making a cake and I thought making a simple cake like a butter cake would be a good start.
The last time I made cookies, the batter were all hand mixed and believe you me, it can be quite tiring. So, 2 weeks ago, I decided to invest in a cheap mixer to give making a cake a shot and of course, to make Yuli and my life much easier in mixing cookie batters. Hhehehehehehehe.....
Anyway, here's the recipe.
Ingredients:-
- 250g butter or 1 block
- 250g self raising flour, sifted
- 170g castor sugar
- 4 large eggs
- 2 tsps of vanilla essence
- about 6 tbsps of milk
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1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees Celsius.
2. Line a cake tin of about 8 inches in diameter or you may use butter to grease the tin all over and dust some flour over it. This is to prevent the cake from sticking onto the baking tin. Please remember to shake off the leftover flour.
3. In a mixer, beat butter and castor sugar until white and fluffy.
4. Add in eggs one at a time, alternating with the flour.
5. Add vanilla essence to milk and mix in.
6. Ensure the consistency of the batter that it has dropping consistency and it does not stand hard. If it does, please add a little more milk.
7. Pour into baking tin and bake for about 20-30 mins.
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##NOTE##
- I did NOT use the oven fan as I remembered my mom telling me once that the cake will be very dry.
- When filling up the baking tin, please only fill up to a little less than half of the height of the baking tin or else your cake will burn and crack. (which mine did!!!!!)
- Bake twice if you have to or make into some cupcakes
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Anyway, here is my cake. Surprisingly the inside of my cake tasted really yummy and soft. Very well mixed. Yuli scraped off the burnt top and sliced the cake to put into a container. Other than that, it was a easy recipe to make.
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Doesn't look that bad, right???
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