Wednesday, 30 March 2011

Cake

The best recipie I have ever found is from Nigella Lawson's website, the cake is so easy and really very yummy too.


  • 200g plain flour
  • 3 tablespoons Bird's custard powder
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda
  • 4 eggs 225g soft butter
  • 200g caster sugar
  • 2-3 tablespoons milk

Make sure everything you need is at room temperature before you start. Preheat the oven to gas mark 4/180°C, and butter and line two 20cm sandwich tins.
Put all of the above ingredients except the milk, into a food processor. Process to a smooth batter, and then add the milk a tablespoon at a time to make a soft dropping consistency. Divide between the two cake tins and bake for 20 minutes. The cakes will have risen and feel spookily puffy; this is because of the cornflour in the custard powder (I didn't own any custard powder when I made my first cake and just used corn flour instead; it was still fantastic).
Let the tins sit on a cooling rack for 5 minutes and then turn them out on to the rack, peeling away the paper.



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