Bbc Good Food Recipes Vanilla Cake
Add flour milk and baking powder.
Bbc good food recipes vanilla cake. Heat oven to 160c 140c fan gas 3. Makes enough to cover a 20cm cake. Heat the oven to 400 degrees f. Beat with electric beaters for a few secs until pale.
Grease a round deep 20cm tin then line the base and sides with non stick baking paper. A good basic vanilla buttercream put 175g soft unsalted butter into a large bowl. Cream shortening and sugar add eggs and beat. Keep beating until mixture is pale and creamy.
Beat in seeds from 1 vanilla pod or 1 tsp vanilla paste. Melt the butter. Gradually add 300g sifted icing sugar a spoonful at a time. Bake for 20 25 minutes or until golden brown on top and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean.
Put all of the ingredients except those for the icing into a large bowl and beat together either using an electric hand whisk or a wooden spoon until smooth and combined. Beat in the butter one heaping 1 4 teaspoonful at a time using an electric mixer set on low speed until the mixture resembles coarse sand. Cream the butter and sugar together until it becomes a pale yellow white colour. Using electric beaters or a tabletop mixer beat the butter sugar vanilla and tsp salt together until pale and fluffy then pour in the eggs one at a time giving the mix a really good beating before adding the next.
Preheat the oven to 195c fan 175c gas 3 5. Sift the cake flour baking powder and salt into a large mixing bowl. Grease a 9 inch cake tin with cooking spray and line with parchment paper. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees f.
Butter two 9 inch round cake pans and line the bottoms with parchment paper. Spoon the cake mixtures into the three cake tins and gently spread out with a spatula. Lightly coat an 8 inch cake pan with butter and dust with all purpose flour. Sift in the flour and baking powder.
Makes about 12 large cupcakes or one 22cm 9in round birthday cake line the base of a deep 20cm 9in square cake tin with non stick paper and preheat the oven to180c 160c fan gas 4. Butter the parchment and dust the pans with flour tapping out the excess.