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Vanilla Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting & Youngberries and Gooseberries The Best Vanilla Cake...Ever
This is the best vanilla cake recipe in the world!... Scratch that. This is the greatest vanilla cake recipe in the universe!.. Nope, rather: this is the most delicious vanilla cake you'll ever in your entire life eat. I don’t know what makes this cake so delicious, but by golly it's good. The recipe comes from a book called 'The Encyclopaedia of Useful Information'. It was a book that originally belonged to my grandmother – so it's ancient, however completely fab. The recipe is very basic, and pretty much seems your standard sponge cake recipe, but I have never tasted a vanilla sponge as nice as this one.
The book that it comes from is massive – about the size of a small suitcase (like one of those little brown ones you use in grade 1), and contains anything from the world's best vanilla cake recipe to instructions on how to build a wall. I love the book, it has a wonderful charm to it. Paging through the book is so much fun, I mean there is even a section on how to dance the Venetian Waltz.
On the whole, I like this cake assembled with caramel in the centre, white icing all over, and then (the pièce de résistance) decorated with Smarties. However, for the purpose of coming across as an adult I decided to use a cream cheese frosting and berries – but Smarties and white icing will always be my preferred combination.
Recipe: Vanilla Cake: ½ cup of butter 1 cup of sugar 2 eggs pinch of salt 1 tsp of vanilla essence 1 cup of milk 2 cups of cake flour 3 tsp of baking powder Pre-heat your oven to 180 degrees Celsius Cream the butter until it is light and fluffy, then add the sugar and beat again. Then add the eggs in one at a time, beating in between each one. Sift the dry ingredients and add to the butter mixture. Slowly beat in the milk and vanilla essence. Line two cake pans with grease-proof paper and divide the mixture evenly between the two. Bake the cake for 25-30 minutes or until the cake is cooked – if pierced with a knife, the blade should run clear, if any batter sticks to the knife place back into the oven. Place cakes on a cooling rack and once cooled, ice your cake with whatever you feel to be the best.
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Beautiful!
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Unbelievably beautiful!! Wow, you are such an artist!
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such beautiful photos ! well done
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This sentence is the best – “I like this cake assembled with caramel in the centre, white icing all over, and then (the pièce de résistance) decorated
with Smarties. However, for the purpose of coming across as an adult I
decided to use a cream cheese frosting and berries”
Made me laugh. A lot.How do you make your cream cheese icing? When i tried, i failed completely and was left with a watery (!?) gooey mess :/
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Ohhh wow, looking delumptious… Please give us the Cream cheese icing recipe… MMmmmm
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Well done Kristy. Your blog received high accolades on Dinner Divas this morning and you have done so well on the programme. You deserve it 100% and I am proud of you.
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Hooray again Kristy. You display the exuberance of a young, good looking TV personality, enthusiastic blogger and excellent cook. Yes, blaps happen but that judge who tried to nail you is definitely a smart Alex! You have a great future ahead of you.
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Kristy Reply:
August 27th, 2012 at 7:23 am
Thanks Sam x
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