Basic butter cake

Here's for Auntie Liz.

Basic Butter Cake

Ingredients:
150 gm butter
150 gm castor sugar
1/4 tsp vanilla essence
3 medium-sized eggs
170 gm self-raising flour (sifted)
2 tbsp milk

1. Cream the butter until soft and fluffy. Gradually add sugar and vanilla.
2. Add the eggs one at a time. Fold in the flour, in three batches. Mix well. Finally, fold in the milk.
3. Turn the mixture out into a greased and lined baking tin and place in an oven pre-heated to 180 Celcius. Bake for 40 minutes or until well-risen, golden brown and the top springs back when lightly touched with a fingertip. Leave for 15 minutes before turning it out to cool.

Variations:
Chocolate cake: add cocoa powder or melted cooking chocolate
Orange cake: add 3 tbsp orange juice and 3 tsp grated/chopped orange rind

So simple hor. The recipe works all the time, even for a beginner like me. Have fun. I am moving on to chiffon cakes and cookies and buns and pizzas...

Here are my equipments:

Khind Mixer. The bowl rotates as the mixer works.

Khind Oven (OT 2502). It has a rotisserie function that allows you to skewer a chicken and roast it rotating round and round.

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