Recipe to make cake?

Question

Does any one kindly send me some recipes to make cake! My daughter has demanded me to make a cake for her, but i dont know how to make... I am not a good cook? can anyone p/s let me know how to make a cake( pls use simple language) as i went through the website, but some ingredients I have never heard or i even dont know where you get? I really wonder some ladies and men who are so nice and best cook!! Pls can you share your little skill with me too...

Answer 1

Ingredients
1+¼ cup (170 g) flour
2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 cup (200 g) sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla essence
½ cup (1.2 dl) milk or water
½ cup (1.2 dl) vegetable oil
2 eggs

Ingredients for frosting
2/3 cup (1.6 dl) heavy cream or whipping cream
9 oz (260 g) semisweet chocolate (40-50% cocoa)

Method

1. Preheat oven to 350 deg F (Gas mark 4 or 180 deg C)
2. Grease a 9 inch (23 cm) cake tin.
3. Mix flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, sugar and vanilla essence in a bowl.
4. Add milk/water, vegetable oil and eggs.
5. Mix everything together until smooth, either by hand or by using an electric mixer at slow speed.
6. Transfer to bake tin and bake at 350 degrees until a wooden pick inserted in center comes out clean, approximately 35 to 45 minutes.
7. After the cake has cooled, slice the cake through the middle to make two layers (easier if the cake has been in the fridge).

Frosting

1. Heat 2/3 cup (1.6 dl) of heavy cream or whipping cream in a sauce pan.
2. Remove from heat, add 9 oz (260 g) of finely chopped dark semisweet chocolate, stir until smooth, and let it cool until in thickens, if needed in the fridge.
3. Use one 1/3 of the frosting between the two layers, 1/3 on top, and the rest around the cake. Put the cake into the fridge for one hour or more to harden the frosting.
4. This cake should have room temperature when served.

Answer 2

Simple Sponge Cake

INGREDIENTS
3 eggs
1/2 cup castor sugar or superfine sugar
2/3 cup self-rising flour

DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease an 8 or 9 inch round cake pan.

In a medium bowl, whip together the eggs and castor sugar until fluffy. Fold in flour. Pour into the prepared pan.

Bake for 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the top of the cake springs back when lightly pressed. Cool in the pan over a wire rack.

Answer 3

Pineapple Upside-Down Cake 2 tablespoons butter 1 can (20 ounces) pineapple slices, drained 1/2 cup brown sugar 1/4 cup shortening 1 teaspoon vanilla 1/2 cup granulated sugar 1 egg, beaten 1 1/2 cups cake flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder 1/3 cup milk Melt butter in an 8-inch square cake pan. Add brown sugar; blend with the butter. Arrange 5 or 6 pineapple slices over the bottom of the pan, cutting as needed to fit as many as possible. In a mixing bowl, cream shortening, vanilla, and granulated sugar. Add egg; beat thoroughly. Add sifted dry ingredients alternately with the milk. Pour batter over pineapple. Bake at 350° for 35 minutes, or until a wooden pick or cake tester inserted in center comes out clean.

Answer 4

The easy way to make a cake is to buy a cake mix at the store. You would probably only need some eggs and oil in addition to the mix. Follow the directions on the box, they are quite easy! Make sure you keep an eye on the cake while it's baking, when you touch it it should spring back to the touch or when you insert a toothpick in the middle, the toothpick should come out clean. That means there is no raw cake mix, just baked cake! Cool the cake according to the package directions. The easiest frosting to use is the kind in a can, sold right next to the cake mixes. Wait until the cake is cool before you frost it!

Answer 5

HI this is a cut and keep butter cake it is and easy to mix one bowl cake.

Ingredients:
125 g butter softened (leave out of the fridge for 20 minutes)
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/4 cups (275g) caster sugar (you can use normal white sugar but it will take a little longer for the sugar to dissolve when beating)
3eggs
1cup (150g) Plain flour
1/2 cup (75g) self raising flour
1/4 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda (you will find this and the vanilla extract in the flour isle in your supermarket)
1/2 cup (125ml milk

Method
1. Preheat oven to 170C (325F). Grease a deep 20cm round cake pan with butter line base with baking paper if you have some

2. Beat ingredients in a medium bowl on low speed with electric mixer until just combined increase speed to medium. Beat until mixture is smooth and changed to a paler colour. Pour mixture into prepared pan.

3. Bake cake in a oven about 1 1/4 hours. Stand cake in pan 5 minutes before turning onto wire rack. Turn cake top side up to cool.
Serves 10
Cake will keep in an airtight container for up to 3 days. Cake can be frozen for up to 3 months

tips: to give this cake a slight caramel flavour, substitute 1 1/3 cups (295g) firmly packed brown sugar for the caster sugar

Answer 6

Try the 7 up cake. It is simple and really good. The recipe is on this site.

Answer 7

If she likes citrus and pineapple, you could make a Mountain Dew cake.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/rushinrecipes/message/110

Answer 8

get a box of cake mix at the store.




also shame on you cook the cake for yuor kid already...