Bake your Cake

Enjoy the recipe of a basic cake.

Preparation Time: 10-12 minutes

Cooking Time: 30-35 minutes

Ingredients:

1. All-purpose flour (Maida): 1 cup
2. Wheat flour: 1/2 cup
3. Butter (unsalted): 1/4^th cup
4. Oil: 1/2 cup
5. Condensed milk: 1/2 cup
6. Powdered sugar: 1/4^th cup
7. Milk: 3/4^th cup
8. Baking powder: 1.5 tsp
9. Baking soda: 1/2 tsp 
10. Salt: 1/2 tsp
11. Vanilla essence: 1/2 tsp
12. Vinegar: 1 tsp

Method:

1. Preheat the oven at 180℃ for 8-10 minutes.
   Alternatively, you can take a heavy bottom pan like kadhai/cooker, put some salt in it, then put a small bowl upside down or cooker stand in it. Cover and preheat at low flame for 10 minutes.
2. Take a 7 inch cake tin, put butter paper in it and grease it with oil.
   Alternatively, you can grease the cake tin with oil and then dust it with all-purpose flour. 
3. Take a bowl and put a sieve over it. Add all-purpose flour, wheat flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Sift all the ingredients through it. This is our dry mixture, keep it aside.
4. Take another big bowl, add butter and oil. Mix them well, then add condensed milk, sugar and vanilla essence to it.
   Now, beat the mixture using fork/whisker/electric beater till it gets creamy white. Add milk and mix it, our wet mixture is ready.
5. Now, take the dry mixture, add it to the wet mixture in two batches. Mix the ingredients by cut and fold method. 
6. At the end, add vinegar and fold the mixture gently. Our cake batter is ready.
   At this stage do not over mix/beat the batter, otherwise your cake will not turn out spongy.
7. Transfer the batter to the cake tin and tap 4-5 times, so that air bubbles are removed.
8. Put the cake tin in the oven and bake it at 180℃ for 30 minutes. If you are using kadhai/cooker, bake it at low flame for 35 minutes. 
9. After 30-35 minutes, check the cake by pricking it with a toothpick in the center. If it comes out clean, our cake is ready. If it doesn't, then bake for 5 more minutes.
10. When the cake is ready, open the door of the oven or remove the lid from the pan and let it cool for 5 minutes in the oven/kadhai/cooker itself.
11. Then, take the cake tin out and allow it to cool for 10-15 minutes by placing it on a wired rack or any plate full of holes.
12. After 10-15 minutes, unmold the cake and again place it on the wired rack/plate with holes and let it cool completely.
    To unmold the cake, take a knife, move it around the edges of the cake tin, then invert the cake tin on the wired rack/plate with holes, remove butter paper (if any) and put the cake upright.

Your super fluffy and spongy cake is ready😄. will post the recipe for icing/frosting soon.

Some Tips:

1. Every ingredient should be at room temperature.
2. Prepare the cake tin first, then make the batter, as it is not advisable to leave the batter for long.
3. Never unmold the cake when it is hot. 
4. Preheating the oven is a must, overheating should be avoided.
5. Do not use cold knife instead of toothpick to check the cake.