Plain cake

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 1 cake, you will need:

• 1 150 g egg  ( How to... )
• 2 125 g butter
• 3 110 g caster sugar
• 4 15 g vanilla sugar
• 5 160 g flour
• 6 10 g baking powder
• Total weight: 570 grams

Times:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
25 min.	30 min.	35 min.	1 hour 30 min.

Step by step recipe

• 1:

  Allow ingredients to come to room temperature

  
  Take the butter out of the fridge at least 1 hour beforehand.
  Break the eggs then weigh 125 g butter carefully; this is important for the rest of the recipe. Put into a bowl and leave at room temperature for at least 1 hour.
• 2:

  Make the cake batter

  
  Put into a food-mixer bowl: 125 g butter (cut into small pieces), 110 g caster sugar and 15 g vanilla sugar.
• 3: Start beating and mix the sugar and butter thoroughly.
• 4: Add the eggs one at a time...
• 5: ...and beat until the mixture is smooth.
  Important: If the mixture begins to curdle, stop beating and plunge the bowl into a pan of hot water, beating with a hand whisk until the mixture homogenizes (normally about 1 minute).
• 6: Sieve 160 g flour and 10 g baking powder together.
• 7: Mix into the batter with whisk.
  Refrigerate the batter for 30 minutes.
• 8:

  Bake the cake

  
  Preheat the oven to 390°F (200°C).
  Pour the batter into the mould or tin.
  Note: As always with cakes, if you want a nice opening on top when baking, try this very effective trick.
• 9: Bake for 30 to 40 minutes. Test the centre of the cake to check that it is cooked .

Remarks

If you want to include dry fruit, chocolate chips, etc., add these at stage 6, mixed with the flour.

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