About The Recipe:

Vanilla Cake And Butter Icing | Homemade Vanilla Cake - This is one of my all time favorite cake, it with very soft, moist, mild vanilla flavor and melting in mouth 😋😋😋. This is the basic cake recipe, perfect for beginners to learn easily to bake. With this recipe, you can change any flavors like butter scotch, pineapple, rose or mango... I tried to explain clearly with step by step images, instructions and video. Follow the recipe as below...

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Recipe : Vanilla Cake | Easy Vanilla Cake And Butter Icing | Beginner Cake Prep Time: 30 minutes Cook time: 30 + 5 minutes Recipe Cuisine: World Recipe Category: Cake Yield: one 6" Cake

Ingredients :

For Cake Batter:

Maida | Plain Flour - 1 cup

Baking Powder - 1\2 tsp

Cooking Soda | Sodium Bi Carbonate - 1\4 tsp

Unsalted Butter - 100 gms (room temperature)

White Sugar - 1\2 cup (measured and powdered it)

Large Eggs - 2 nos (room temperature or use 3 eggs)

Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp

Milk - required

For Sugar Syrup:

Sugar - 1\4 cup

Water - 3\4 cup

For Butter Icing:

Unsalted Butter - 100 gms (room temperature)

Icing Sugar - 300 gms

Vanilla Essence - 1 tsp

Milk - required

To Decorate:

Sugar Sprinkle - required.

Method :

Preparations: Grease and dust the 6" baking cake tin with some butter and madia, keep aside. Sieve the maida, baking powder, cooking soda for 2 to 3 times and keep aside. Pre heat the oven at 180 degree Celsius.

For Cake Batter: In a mixing bowl, add the butter and powdered sugar, beat with an electric beater till light and creamy. Add the eggs, one at a time, beat till them combined. Add the vanilla essence and beat well. Add the sieved flour mixture and fold it with the spatula. If the batter is too thick, add some milk and the batter is ready.

To Bake: Transfer the cake batter into the prepared cake tin. Tap on flat surface to spread the batter evenly on all sides. Bake for twenty five to thirty mins or till the top turns golden colour. Test the cake by inserting a knife in the center, it should comes out clean. Else, bake for five to ten minutes more. Then cool the cake.

Sugar Syrup: Make sugar syrup and cool completely. Fill the sugar syrup in a bottle with holes cap.

Butter Icing: In a mixing bowl, add the butter, icing sugar and vanilla essence, mix little and then beat with an electric beater till creamy with required milk.

To Icing And Finishing: To remove the cake in the tin, run a knife at the sides and flip on plate. Cool the cake completely. Slice the cake in to half, take one part, moist with the required sugar syrup, layer with required butter icing on top. Then place the another cake part, moist it and cover the cake fully with the butter icing. Make simple border design, sprinkle some sugar sprinkles on top and the cake is ready.

Notes: Use all the ingredients in room temperature. Use measuring cup. Measure half cup of sugar and then powder it. Cool the cake completely and then icing it. Don't use more baking powder and cooking soda to rise the cake.

Step By Step Images:

Vanilla cake required ingredients are shown in the above image.

Preparation, first grease and dust a 6" baking cake tin with some butter and maida, keep aside. Then sieve the maida, baking powder and cooking soda for 2 to 3 times and keep aside. Then pre heat the oven at 180 degree Celsius. In the meantime, we can make the cake batter.

Take a mixing bowl, add the butter and powdered sugar, beat with an electric beater till light and creamy.

Now add the eggs, one at a time and beat with an electric beater till all combined well.

Add the vanilla essence and beat for few seconds to mix altogether. Add the sieved flour mixture.

Using spatula, fold the flour in the egg mixture at one direction. If the batter is too thick means, add some milk and the cake batter is ready to bake. Transfer the cake batter into the prepared cake tin and tap on flat surface to spread the batter evenly on all side.

Bake in the oven for 25 to 30 minutes or till the top turns golden color. To test the cake, is fully baked or not, insert a knife in the center of cake and it should comes out comes. Else bake the cake for 5 to 10 minutes more. Because the baking time may vary for different types of oven.

To remove the cake in the tin, first cool the cake in the tin for 10 to 15mins, run a knife at the sides and invert on the plate. Then cool the cake completely to icing. Also make the sugar syrup, cool it and fill in the bottle with holes cap, it helps to sprinkle syrup easily on cake.

Butter icing required ingredients are shown in the above image.

In a mixing bowl, add the butter, icing sugar and vanilla essence, mix all and then beat with an electric beater till creamy with required milk.

To icing the cake, slice the cake into half, take one part of cake and moist the cake with the sugar syrup.

Then layer the cake with required butter icing, place the another cake part on top and moist it.

After that cove the cake fully with the butter icing. Fill the remaining butter icing in the pipping bag with the star nozzle.

Make simple border design and finally sprinkle the sugar sprinkles on top and the vanilla cake is ready.

Serving Suggestion: Serve the cake with melted chocolate and puffs. Page: Collection Of Cake Recipes. Variation: For butter scotch flavor, use butter scotch essence. Similarly use pineapple, mango, rose essence. If you like this recipe: You will like this coconut cake recipe also. Did you make this recipe? Please let me know how it turned out for you! Leave a comment below and share on facebook

By Kalais