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A Very Vanilla One Bowl Yellow Cake And Announcing The Winners Of The Giveaway!

Isn’t it funny how the simplest things in life bring you the greatest pleasure, and the sometimes the best memories? The other day, I needed to make a cake to serve with evening coffee/ tea and was wondering what to make. The summer has set in and I wasn’t looking forward to spending too much time i
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Course Dessert
Cuisine global vegetarian
Servings 10 serving

Ingredients
  

  • 100 gm butter , softened
  • 1 1/4 cups sugar
  • 1 egg
  • 1 3/4 cups flour
  • 1/2 cup vanilla custard powder
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 3 1/2 tsps baking powder
  • 1 1/4 cups milk
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions
 

  • Put the softened butter and sugar into a large bowl and whisk it together until slightly fluffy. Then keep adding the ingredients, one at a time, in the order in which theyu2019re listed. Whisk everything together until blended into a smooth batter. About 2 to 3 minutes of vigorous whisking should do the job.
  • Pour the batter into a 9u201d greased and floured cake tin or divide it between 2 similarly prepared 9u201d cake tins. Bake the cake at 180C (350F) for about 45 minutes till golden brown and a skewer pushed into the middle of the cake comes out clean.
  • If you are baking 2 cakes with the same batter, they should be done in about 25 to 30 minutes. Let the cake cool in the cake tin for about 10 to 15 minutes. Run a knife or spatula along the sides and loosen the cake. Unmould the cake and let it cool on a rack.
  • You can dust the top with powdered sugar or frost it. We liked it best plain and unadorned.

Notes

I’m happy to announce the winners of the cookbook giveaway for my readers in India, and my apologies for slightly delaying this. The randomly picked winners are Ruchi (from Chennai) who gets the 500 Italian Dishes by Valentina Sforza and Vrunda (from Pune) who gets the 500 Asian Dishes by Gillie Basan. Congratulations!
Please e-mail me your mailing addresses so I can send the books to you. Please note that if I do not receive your mailing addresses within a week (by the 7th of April, 2011), I will randomly pick a new set of winners to receive the book/ books.
Help Japan, Please!
Once again, I would like to take this opportunity to mention that a small group of food bloggers have got together to raise some money through an auction to send to the Japanese Red Cross for their earthquake relief work. It would be nice if you could join us by bidding on one or more of the items on offer. Please help us help Japan. Thank you.