Name: Vanilla Cake
Yield: Cuts into 10–12 slices
Ingredients: 250 g(9 oz) butter, softened; about 3 tablespoons milk; 250 g(9 oz) caster (superfine) sugar; 185 ml(6 fl oz/¾ cup) pouring (single) cream, milk or buttermilk; 1½ teaspoons baking powder; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 290 g(10¼ oz) plain (all-purpose) flour; 3 eggs; 200 g(7 oz) icing (confectioners’) sugar; 100 g(3½ oz) butter, softened

Preparation info

Cuts into
10–12

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Apples for Jam

By Tessa Kiros

Published 2010

About

I love this mattressy and soft cake. Here it is plain with a beautiful white icing, but on occasion you could slice it in half through its equator and fill it with some whipped cream and a layer of not-too-sweet jam. The kids appreciate it when I stick sweets all over the icing. Or you could make a chocolate icing and stick raspberries into that.