CAKE EMERGENCY!

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Hi f-list!

So my mother went to Ikea this morning without sending me the cake recipes I need for the weekend. I know where the chocolate one is well enough to give directions to my dad ("Mary Moore Cookbook, page with the most cocoa"; "218, getting kinda messy. GOOD LORD, how can you read this?"), but I have NO IDEA where the white cake one is!

SO!

If any of you have a trusted vanilla, white cake, yellow cake, etc. recipe you wouldn't mind sharing, I'd be grateful! If it could have a fahrenheit oven temperature and measure things in cups and teaspoons, that would be preferred.

THANK YOU!

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Thank goodness lj kept my cake icon! ;)

Comments

[laura-josephsen.livejournal.com]

I don't remember if I've used this recipe, but it comes from my very trusted cookbook that has never let me down:

Silver White Cake:

2 and 1/4 cups flour (not self-rising!)
1 and 2/3 cups sugar
2/3 cup shortening
1 and 1/4 cups milk
3 and 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla
5 egg whites

Heat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit. Grease and flour rectangular 13X9X2 inch pan, or two 8 or 9 inch round pans. Beat all ingredients except egg whites on low speed, scraping bowl constantly, 30 seconds. Beat on high speed, scraping bowl occasionally, 2 minutes. Beat in egg whites on high speed, scraping bowl occasionally, 2 minutes. Pour into pan(s).

Bake until wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean or until cake springs back when touched lightly in center, rectangle 40 to 45 minutes, rounds 30 to 35 minutes.


Hope that helps!

[emmaorgana.livejournal.com]

I am just here to say mmmmm cake. And to gloat that I just ate a piece of banana cake with carmal frosting and it was delicious.

CARRY ON YOU WONDERFUL BAKER.

[crazedturkey.livejournal.com]

My Recipe for Butter cake:

125g of butter, room temperature.
Beat together with 1/4 cup of caster sugar.
Add 1 tsp of vanilla essence.
Add two eggs and beat together.

Alternate two cups flour and one cup milk. Stir until combined.

(although there is an element here of feel - reduce flour/increase milk dependent on consistancy).

This works for cupcakes too ;)