1 2 3 4 Vanilla Cake

I have recently learnt about the very versatile 1234 cake, that gets its name because of it's amounts of main ingredients.  It is not only a fantastic basic vanilla cake, but you can add all sorts of favours to it to jazz it up. Today I think we will just talk about the vanilla version as its a good base to start, there is always room for fancy flavour blogs later on!

What you need...

• 1 Cup of Butter
• 2 Cups of Caster Sugar
• 3 Cups of Plain Flour
• 4 Eggs (get the 1234 now??)
• 1 tsp salt
• 2 tsp vanilla paste
• 3 tsp baking powder
• 4 x 75 ml liquid, you could do 300mls of milk, or 2 parts milk 2 parts liquor, your coconut milk, so on.  Just so it adds up to 300 mls

How you do it...

• Pre heat you oven to 180 degrees 
• Cream the butter sugar together
• Add eggs and vanilla, beat together well
• then add in all other ingredients, and beat well until light and smooth.
• Bake 

This recipe give you a decent amount of batter, so it will easily make you 24 cupcakes, or 2 x 8 inch cake tins, a big lamington tin cake or a nice big 10 inch round cake.  The time the cake/s will take to cook will depend on what you have chosen to bake them in, cupcakes will take about 15 mins, a large tin may take up to an hour. just keep and eye on it and enjoy.

Happy Baking