Gold Vanilla Cake

Name: Gold Vanilla Cake
Ingredients: 175 g / 6 oz self-raising flour; 175 g / 6 oz butter; 175 g / 6 oz caster sugar; 6 egg yolks; 2 tbs water; ¼ tsp vanilla essence; 230 g / 8 oz marzipan; 1 tsp baking powder; 7 tbs milk; 120 g / 4 oz icing sugar; 3 tbs apple jelly or sieved apricot jam; 45 g / 1½ oz butter; ¼ tsp vanilla essence or seeds; yellow food colouring

Preparation info

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Cakes

By Geraldene Holt

Published 2011

About

Ingredients

175 g / 6 oz butter
175 g / 6

Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Cream the butter with the sugar until light and fluffy. Beat in the vanilla essence and mix in the flour sifted with the baking powder alternately with the milk. Spoon the mixture into the prepared tin and smooth level.

Bake in the preheated oven until springy in the centre and just starting to shrink from the tin. Cool in the tin for 2 minutes then open the clip and remove the side of