VANILLA CAKE

Hey guys, it's been a while sine I've last posted.  I've been baking a bit in the last few weeks so I'll be putting up some new recipes, including a new banana bread recipe to replace the one I currently have.

So I'm just posting the recipe for vanilla cake because it's originally on another post, under "DOLL CAKES", but that was one of my first posts on this blog, so I put 4 recipes on one post, which makes it harder for me, and maybe others, in reaching the individual recipes.  The 4 recipes were vanilla and chocolate cake, and buttercream and chocolate frosting.  This is the vanilla cake post, enjoy.  :)



VANILLA CAKE:

-1 1/2 C all purpose flour
-1/2 C butter or margarine (softened)
-1 tbp vanilla extract
-2 eggs
-1 3/4 tsp baking powder
-1/2 C and extra 1/8 C milk (as suggested from others)
-1 C sugar
-food colouring (optional)


1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease the pans with butter or oil and coat with flour

2. Sift together the flour and baking powder in a separate bowl and set aside.

3. Make sure your butter or margarine is room temperature or softened. Cream the butter than add the sugar and cream some more. In small bowl, whisk/beat each egg one at a time and add each egg into the cream and sugar mix separately. Then add in the vanilla extract.

4. Add the dry ingredients mixture into the wet ingredients until all the ingredients are wet, add milk and stir.

5. Next pour the batter into a pan (if you chose to use more than one colour, bake in separate pans for each). Bake for about 20 min to 30 min, or when a toothpick comes out clean after being inserted into the cake. Let it cool.

Tips:
-If your butter is straight from the fridge and is hard, try microwaving it for at least 20 sec.

-If you use colouring, the colour of the cake will come out of the oven slightly lighter than it looked before as a batter.