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Vanilla Cake

Name: Vanilla Cake
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 12
Ingredients: 1 ½ cups Chelsea White Sugar (338g); 190g butter, softened; 3 eggs; 1 Tbsp vanilla essence; 2 ¼ cups Edmonds Standard Grade Flour (338g); 2 ½ teaspoons Edmonds Baking Powder; ¾ cup Meadow Fresh Original Milk (190ml); Vanilla Icing; 225g butter, softened; 3 cups Chelsea Icing Sugar, sifted (450g); 3-4 Tbsp Meadow Fresh Original Milk; 1 ½ tsp pure vanilla extract; Sprinkles, to decorate (optional)

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Preparation

20 mins

Bake

30 mins

Difficulty

Easy

Servings

A really great simple vanilla cake batter that can be used for cakes or muffins. Easy enough for kids to make and decorate.

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Ingredients
Method

Ingredients

1 ½ cups Chelsea White Sugar (338g)
190g butter, softened
3 eggs
1 Tbsp vanilla essence
2 ¼ cups Edmonds Standard Grade Flour (338g)
2 ½ teaspoons Edmonds Baking Powder
¾ cup Meadow Fresh Original Milk (190ml)

Vanilla Icing

225g butter, softened
3 cups Chelsea Icing Sugar, sifted (450g)
3-4 Tbsp Meadow Fresh Original Milk
1 ½ tsp pure vanilla extract
Sprinkles, to decorate (optional)

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Reviews

402

What did you think of this recipe?

Grace

It looked like cheese and it tasted like over cooked pasta.

Ruby

Thank you so much, Chelsea! My mum always makes her own cake, and I wanted to make her one this time. My only experience in baking previously was making microwave brownies. I thought it would be hard but you made it so much easier, Chelsea. My mum loved it.

Bonnie

Yum, looks great but it will have to be a 10/10 for me and I just want to have 5m like this.

Bobby

Meh.

Bonnie

OMG the best cake ever!

Biggles

Cake didn't rise very much sadly. However, very light and fluffy. Icing was ghastly sadly, so so rich and way too sweet, so much so that the cake was overpowered.

Nugget

It's an amazing cake I made it. 7 times today

anonymous

poopy tasting ugly looking cake.

Amy

This is the best thing I have ever baked, it's nice and soft and the perfect texture. With the icing it's so good everytime I have some I just melt away, thank you for this recipe.

Tessa Menzies

I liked the easiness of the making of the cake, does smell a bit weird but with frosting & icing it will look & taste yummy!

Method

Preheat oven to 180°C conventional / 160°C fan bake. Grease 2 x 20cm round cake tins and line with baking paper.

In a large bowl, cream Chelsea White Sugar and Tararua Butter until pale and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla essence.

Sift in Edmonds Standard Grade Flour and Edmonds Baking Powder. Mix well. Finally, add Meadow Fresh Original Milk and stir until smooth.

Divide mixture evenly between prepared tins and smooth the surface. Bake for 25-30 minutes, until golden brown and the top of the cake springs back when lightly pressed. Leave to cool in tins for 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Place one of the cooled cake layers on a serving plate. Spread with icing, then add the second cake layer. Ice the cake all over (use a cake comb to create a nice pattern around the outside, if you like) and decorate with sprinkles, if using.

Vanilla Icing
Using an electric mixer, beat Tararua Butter until pale and creamy. Add remaining ingredients and mix on low speed for 1 minute, then on medium speed for 6 minutes, until light and fluffy.

NOTE: This mixture can also be used to make 18 cupcakes. Bake at the same temperature but reduce cooking time to 20 minutes.

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Reviews

402

What did you think of this recipe?

Grace

It looked like cheese and it tasted like over cooked pasta.

Ruby

Bonnie

Yum, looks great but it will have to be a 10/10 for me and I just want to have 5m like this.

Bobby

Meh.

Bonnie

OMG the best cake ever!

Biggles

Cake didn't rise very much sadly. However, very light and fluffy. Icing was ghastly sadly, so so rich and way too sweet, so much so that the cake was overpowered.

Nugget

It's an amazing cake I made it. 7 times today

anonymous

poopy tasting ugly looking cake.

Amy

This is the best thing I have ever baked, it's nice and soft and the perfect texture. With the icing it's so good everytime I have some I just melt away, thank you for this recipe.