When it comes to cakes, a really good simple vanilla recipe can be adapted to suit any flavour. Here is the recipe that I have used for the past three years for both cupcakes and sponge cakes.It makes a really delicious fluffy cake.
Ingredients
200g Self Raising Flour
200g Caster Sugar
200g Baking Margarine or Unsalted Butter
2 tbsp Vegetable oil (yes,thats right)
4 Medium Free Range Eggs
2 tsp Vanilla Extract
Method
Pre-heat oven to 160C Gas mark 3 and line the cupcake tin or grease and line a cake tin.
This recipe will make an 8" cake or 16 cupcakes.
With an electric mixer cream together the butter and caster sugar until pale and fluffy and add the oil. Then add the eggs one at a time and alternate with the flour until all ingredients are combined. Finally add the vanilla extract. Using an ice cream scoop - I find this is perfect for measuring out cupcakes- put one scoop in each cupcake case.
Bake for 25 minutes if you are making cupcakes or 45-50 minutes for a large sponge cake.
As I said you can change the flavour of the sponge to suit you needs for example when making a lemon sponge you can substitute the vanilla for either lemon extract or fresh lemon zest and 1 tsp of lemon juice.
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