Recipe sharing!

I have decided to share the recipe i used for the birthday cake.  Its quite useful especially when you want to use plastic icing or fondant to cover the cake; the cake is nice and firm to hold the weight.

For those of you who would like to share some recipes, please be my guest:) 

Basic vanilla cake

Baking time-45-60 minutes

Oven temperature- 180 degrees

-          120g (130ml) butter

-          110g (185ml) castor sugar

-          7ml vanilla essence

-          2 large eggs

-          240g (440ml) cake flour

-          10ml baking powder

-          125ml milk

Method:

Beat the butter until light.  Add the castor sugar and beat well.  Add the vanilla essence and then add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition.

Sift the flour, baking powder and a pinch of salt together.  Fold into the butter mixture alternately with the milk.

Spoon the mixture into a greased and lined 22cm round baking tin.  Bake in a preheated oven for 45 minutes until a skewer comes out clean.  Cool in the tin for about ten minutes, then remove and cool completely on a wire rack. 

my first birthday cake!

It was my sisters 21st birthday recently and i decided to offer to make her birthday cake for her.  i've never really made a cake before; im not the baking type either, but i thought why not.


I took the challenge, did research (lots of it) and finally came across a recipe i found in the Ideas Magazine (one of my favourite mags, check out ideasmag.co.za for more cool recipes and ideas).  It sounded quite basic, a vanilla cake.  To my surprise the cake came out quite well for my first time:)


Bright colours and stuff -  thats what i was told the cake should be like.  The birthday cake consisted of brightly coloured cupcakes, which were made by my second youngest sister Ayesha and i made the top tier.(excuse the bad photo i will try to get a better one). 

This is the first of many i hope!