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Sunday, June 19, 2005
the easiest cake recipe
Plain Cake, Simply Delicious!This is the basis for all sorts of cakes, including chocolate, apple, chocolate chip, etc. It can be multiplied, and I never make it with less than 3 cups of flour. Of course, it can be frozen and iced. I make it with whole wheat cake flour and brown sugar.
1 cup flour1/2 cup sugar1 t baking powder1/6 cup oil (soy)1/2 cup water1 egg1 t vanilla
mix dry ingredientsadd oil and watermixadd eggsmixpour in panbake medium heat until pops up when gently pressed in center of cakeYou can ice, sugar or serve plain.***New healthy icing idea! My two year old granddaughter loved it! Ice with date spread!***
awesome recipe my wife was going to go to the store but my son was the only 1 who wanted it so i made 1 for my son who is awesome and cool and a better golfer/skiier oyeah says tom
This is an awful recipe. I used the whole wheat flour and brown sugar and used 1 tsp baking powder since it did not indicate a measurement. It wasn't good enough to be bread nor good enough to be cake. Stay away from this one!
Very strange, dot. Some people just don't like whole wheat flour and brown sugar. There are different grades of whole wheat. The lighter is best for cakes. One teaspoon of baking powder always works, and ours isn't even double-acting. If the batter sits before baking, the baking powder loses effect.
Sorry you didn't like it, but most people do find it a good basic cake recipe.
This was a great recipe and I use it as a base and add a variety of different fruits and flavours. For someone who is "Baking Impared" this was easy to make. Thanks for posting it.
I have a sweet-tooth, after reading all of these..
ReplyDelete(for breakfast, hehehe) looked, and have ALL the ingredients, right now! Thanks!
Whole wheat flour and brown sugar, so it must be healthy, and of course the date spread is fruit. Don't worry!
ReplyDeleteawesome recipe my wife was going to go to the store but my son was the only 1 who wanted it so i made 1 for my son who is awesome and cool and a better golfer/skiier oyeah says tom
ReplyDeleteThis is an awful recipe. I used the whole wheat flour and brown sugar and used 1 tsp baking powder since it did not indicate a measurement. It wasn't good enough to be bread nor good enough to be cake. Stay away from this one!
ReplyDeleteVery strange, dot. Some people just don't like whole wheat flour and brown sugar. There are different grades of whole wheat. The lighter is best for cakes. One teaspoon of baking powder always works, and ours isn't even double-acting. If the batter sits before baking, the baking powder loses effect.
ReplyDeleteSorry you didn't like it, but most people do find it a good basic cake recipe.
This was a great recipe and I use it as a base and add a variety of different fruits and flavours. For someone who is "Baking Impared" this was easy to make. Thanks for posting it.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you found it easy. I'm a lazy cook and stay away from anything complicated. IMHO, it's as easy as a cake mix.
ReplyDeletewhat is IMHO?
ReplyDeleteIn my personal opinion
ReplyDeleteWhat size pan does this fit in (without doubling it)?
ReplyDeleteThanks! Always looking for simple :-)
A 1 cup of flour cake would need a very small pan, like half size an "English Cake" pan or a few cupcakes.
ReplyDeleteThe recipe says eggs, but only one egg listed. I'm assuming just one egg?
ReplyDeleteMultiply to any size cake. One cup of flour makes a tiny cake.
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