After my friend Frosso requested for a simple vanilla cake recipe,here it is. If you are craving for something sweet and easy to make with ingredients that we all have, try this cake!
Ingredients:
400gr self raising flour
1 ½ cup of butter
2 cups of sugar
4 eggs
4 tablespoons of cocoa powder(non sweet)
1 1/4 cup fresh orange juice
1 vanilla extract or orange zest
Preparation:
In a mixer bowl first beat the butter for a couple of minutes until it becomes fluffy. Add the sugar to the butter and continue beating. Next add the eggs one at a time beating well after each addition.. Keep beating that for at least 3 minutes. Add the orange zest. Sift flour and add it to the egg mixture alternately with the orange juice. Take 15 tablespoons of this mixture into another mixing bowl add the cocoa powder give that a good stir. In a cake baking pan first add half of the white mixture on top of that add the cocoa mixture and finish with the other half of the white mixture.
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the cake for an hour.
*If you like to cover your cake with a glaze like I did here is the recipe. The other solution I have for you which is easier, take a ready hazelnut praline paste warm it up on a bain marie and spread it on your cake. Yummy!!!!
Chocolate glaze:
2 tablespoons butter
1/3 cup water
½ cup sugar
1 ½ cup Custer sugar
1/3 cup cocoa(non sweet)
A pinch of salt
In a bowl sift the Custer sugar and the cocoa. Add the salt and mix that up. In a sauce pan u add the sugar the water and the butter in medium temperature u stir them until they melt, without bring them into a boil. Add the liquid mixture into the solid mixture and mix them all together until u get a fine mixture. It's going to look like a liquid chocolate cream sauce. You let it cool down a bit and then u apply it onto the cake. Note that the cake must be lukewarm.
