If you are planning a particular occasion for yourself or for someone like a wedding, birthday party, an anniversary, a cake is usually the pastry of choice to celebrate the event. Cakes have been a part of many civilizations for for many years from as far back as the Vikings and the Roman Empire. Sure you can go out and purchase a cake from a pastry store, but that takes away from the joy of making it by yourself. A cake can be made with various types of texture, from bread-like textures to some rich fluffy cakes. Nowadays most of the appliances used for baking can be conveniently accessed in almost every household so even a novice cook can make a great cake. This article will offer you with the step by step details on how to start making a plain cake.

Things you will need:

2 cups of sugar

1 cup of butter

3 cups of flour

4 eggs

1 tablespoon of vanilla

1 cup of milk

1 teaspoon of salt

Container

Stove

Salt

Strainer

Instructions are as follows:

1. Use the strainer to sieve the flour into a container and then calculate the amount you need for baking the cake.

2. Now put in the salt and baking powder and filter the mixture again.

3. Add in the softened butter and beat it using either a spoon or a mixer it out until it turns out smooth. Then when this is done measure out the amount of sugar and gradually start to put to the mixture.

4. Open all the eggs into a bowl to make sure that none of them are rotten. Once all of them are in and ready, begin to add in Levitra Professional the eggs one by one and mix them well after each addition.

5. Add the milk with vanilla until the mixture comes together. While you are mixing, the mixture will appear to curdle but after constant mixing, when adding the dry ingredients, it will come together.

6. Now preheat the oven to 350 degrees F and allow it to heat up and use butter to grease the base of the baking tins.

7. When the mixture finally becomes consistent, then fold in the flour mixture and pour into the baking tins. Make a dip in the center of the mixture so that it does not rise when baking.

8. Place the cakes in the oven for half hour but do not open the oven during the first 15 minutes.

Tips and Warnings

* You can use a diversity of baking tins to create different shape of cakes. Some people prefer to make round cakes, square cakes, heart shapes and others.

* If you are arranging a wedding, birthday or anniversary you can make your own icing and use it to garnish your cake, using design and even display phrases to whoever the cake is dedicated to.

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