Mummy's Basic Cake Recipe

My first baking lessons where given by my mom. She made yummy rum cakes for Christmas in her old fashioned round oven. We all relish it. The place we grew up, cake making was not very common. So she was 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. Any way this recipe is for a 1kg cake, where I have taken all the ingredients in the measurement of 250gm which totals out to be 1kg.  

 

Ingredient

Flour/maida  - 250gm

Granulated sugar – 250gm
Butter – 250gm
Egg - 250gm (ie. 5eggs)
Baking powder - 1tsp
Vanilla essence - 1tsp

Method

1.            Sever flour & baking powder together .

2.            Powder the granulated sugar .
3.            Preheat the oven to 180⁰c for 5 min.
4.            In a bowl beat the soft butter and sugar powder ( 1 min with a beater or 5/6 min with hand)
5.            To this add egg and beat. ( 2 min with beater or about 8 min by hand).
6.            Add essence and mix .
7.            Now fold in the flour.
8.            Grease and dust a 8” x 8” round container
9.            Pour the mixture into it.
10.        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.