Friday 22 November 2013

White Cake

It was Josie's birthday yesterday and this time I made a simple white cake with buttercream icing. And for brkfst I made simple pan cakes and rasgullas. For rasgullas, I didn't follow any particular recipe. It was good but just wanted to make a note about syrup. I used 1 and half cup sugar with 2 cups of water and it was right at the end. But I think we can reduce sugar to one and quarter cup. Let me see next time.

So to the cake now........

Ingredients
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Self Raising Flour - 2 1/4 cup
Sugar                     - 11/2 cup (bit sweeter. can be reduced to 11/4 cup)
Egg whites             - 6
Butter                     - 170gm
Vanilla Extract      - 2 Teaspoon
Milk                       - 1cup
Salt                         - a pinch
Butter cream icing

Method
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1.Preheat the oven to 180 C. Sieve SR Flour, baking powder and salt together.
2. Mix Egg whites , vanilla extract and milk with a beater in slow speed for 1 min..
3. Cream butter with a electric beater.
4. Add sugar and beat till mixed.
5. Add flour mixture and all but a cup of milk mixture. beat for 2 mins.
6. Add the remaining milk and beat for 2 mins.
7. Pour into two 8 " inch pans and bake for 20-23 mins.

Once cooled decorate with butter cream icing and top it with jellies.

Notes
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Since I used the yellow butter, cake was little bit yellow rather than white. So, have to choose  white butter next time.
For the same reason of yellow butter, the blue icing turned into green.