5 Easy Cake Recipes...

5 Easy Cake Recipes for Beginners

Since we all love cakes, how about baking a cake at home whenever our sweet cravings strike up on the door? Sounds delicious, right? Here we are with some easy cake recipes for beginners. The art of baking a perfect and yummy cake is all about taking the right measurements of the ingredients and following the process or recipe accurately. So, without any further ado, let’s get started with the super easy cake recipe for beginners.

Chocolate Cake

Ingredients

➢ 1 cup flour

➢ 100 gms amul butter

➢ 2 eggs

➢ 1 tsp baking powder

2 tbsp drinking chocolate powder

➢ ¾ cup castor sugar

➢ A few drops of vanilla essence

Recipe

➢ Filter the dry ingredients - flour, chocolate powder, and baking powder.

➢ Blend the sugar in with butter. Make sure that the butter is melting at room temperature before you use it.

➢ Delicately beat the eggs and gradually pour the sugar butter blend.

➢ Add the egg blend to the dry ingredients and fold in alongside the vanilla extract. Now, empty the cake batter into a baking container that is greased and lined with parchment

paper.

➢ Preheat the oven at 180 degrees C and put the cake to bake for 30 to 35 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted comes out clean.

➢ Let the cake cool totally before you sprinkle some icing sugar to decorate the cake and serve.

Vanilla Sponge Cake

Ingredients

➢ 2 eggs

➢ 1 cup flour

➢ ¾ cup castor sugar

➢ 100 gms amul butter

➢ 1 tsp baking powder

➢ A few drops of vanilla essence

Recipe

➢ Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C.

➢ Filter the dry ingredients - flour and baking powder.

➢ Now add melted butter to the sugar in a bowl.

➢ Delicately beat the eggs and include the mixture of sugar and butter in it.

Add the egg blend to the dry ingredients and add vanilla essence. Now, pour the cake batter into a cake baking container lined with parchment paper.

➢ Put the cake in the oven to bake for 35 minutes, or till a toothpick comes out with a couple of crumbs.

➢ Let the cake cool for around 30 minutes before serving.

Microwave Coffee Mug Cake

Ingredients

➢ 1 tbsp granulated sugar

➢ ⅛ tsp salt

➢ 2 ½ tbsp all purpose flour

➢ ½ tbsp brown sugar

➢ 1 tbsp vegetable oil or plain nonfat greek yogurt

➢ 1 tbsp nonfat milk or almond milk

➢ ¼ tsp baking powder

➢ Dash of vanilla

➢ ¼ tsp ground cinnamon

Recipe

➢ Grease a mug with nonstick cooking oil or spray. Include sugar, baking powder, flour, salt, milk, oil, and vanilla and mix until joined well. Sprinkle cinnamon and brown sugar on top.

➢ Microwave for 45 seconds and check if it is perfect, you can go for 15 seconds addition if not baked perfectly.

➢ Let it cool and serve!

Rava or Sooji Cake

Ingredients

➢ 1 cup Sooji

➢ 1 cup plain yoghurt

➢ 1 cup castor sugar

➢ 2 tbsp Ghee

➢ 1 cup milk

➢ 1 tsp cinnamon powder

➢ 1 tsp baking powder

➢ A handful of unsalted cashew nuts, Pistachio, Almond

Recipe

➢ Filter the dry ingredients - sooji, baking powder, and cinnamon powder.

➢ Ensure the ghee is softened and at room temperature. Blend the sugar in with the ghee.

➢ Add the sugar-ghee blend to the yogurt by delicately beating it in.

➢ Now blend the milk in with sooji and fold in the yogurt with sugar ghee blend.

➢ Include the cinnamon powder and let the cake batter settle for 2 hours.

➢ After that sprinkle the unsalted dry fruits and preheat the oven to 180 degrees C.

➢ Empty the cake batter into a greased baking container and bake the cake. Following 10 or 15 minutes, check if the edges of the cake have turned brown. The toothpick magic doesn't work here as there's no flour. Edges turning brown means that the cake is baked perfectly.