BIRTHDAY CAKE (PLAINCAKE)

It's my husband s birthday last Thursday I made this cake. For this cake base I used old simple cake recipe which my mom use to make. In those days my mom use to blend the cake mixture with a wooden spoon for long time because we don't have mixee to powder sugar so she use to mix sugar, eggs together mix till sugar melts and the mixture became like a cream so this process use to take a long time. And also she uses to bake the cake in a pressure cooker. My mom had that 12lte prestige pressure cooker so she use to pour sand in the bottom of the pressure cooker and then arrange a steel stand preheat for 10 min. and then place the cake tin and bake in a medium flame for 10 min. and then in a low flame till nice cake smell comes out. When ever amma bake this cake we find the aroma from the gate it self mmmmm golden childhood days…………Here I go with the plain cake recipe.

INGREDIENTS: ----
Flour --- 250 gm. (all-purpose/ maida)
Sugar – 250gm.
Butter – 250 gm.
Eggs – 4 no.
Vanilla essence --- 1 tea sp
Baking powder – 1&1/2 tea sp
Milk --- 1/2 cup
METHOD:---
1. Preheat the oven at 350 degree F or 175 degree c. or in gas mark 5 for 10 min.
2. Grease a 9inch- 9 inch round cake tin and dust with little flour and leave a side.
3. In a bowl cream to gather butter and sugar and then add eggs on by one and blend till it become like a cream.
4. Then add vanilla essence and mix well.
5. Shift flour and baking powder to combine to gather and then add little by little to the eggs, butter and sugar mixture mix well.
6. Now add 1/2 cup milk and mix well till all the ingredients are combine well to gather.
7. Now pour the cake mixture in to the prepared cake tin and reduce the temperature to 250 degree F /120 degree C/gas mark 3 and bake for 30 – 40 min. or skewer inserted in to the center comes out clean.
FOR BUTTER ICING:---
Vegetable shortening --- 1/2 cup
Butter – 1/2 cup
Vanilla extract – 1 tea sp
Confectioners sugar --- 4 cups
Milk – 2 tab sp
In a bowl cream shortening, butter,
And vanilla then add sugar one cup at a time and mix well each time then add milk and beat till light and fluffy cover till you decorate the cake other wise icing will get hard.