Cake Recipes Made Easy

Easy cake recipe

Baking cake is possibly one of the first culinary skills that all of us try getting into in our growing years. Especially when it’s papa’s birthday or a surprise for mama or a weekend pick or something similar…baking is great fun.

We though may have big ambitions in baking a cake like never before but it may not end up that well…it’s always better to begin easy. Let’s get some basics in place prior venturing it on the oven:

The essential ingredients that have to be arranged are – cake flour, powdered sugar, egg, milk, butter/oil and the flavouring agent. If it’s a chocolate cake you will need cocoa powder. Apart from these basic things, you can always add on things if you have access to and know how to use. Also things like icing and decorating have their separate list of ingredients provided you are good enough at that level.

Sounds easy so far? Well it’s isn’t that difficult ahead!

You can bake a cake in a pressure cooker, a pre heated oven or a microwave; depending on the availability time and requirement. Of all the above it is simplest to bake it in the microwave.

Easy cake recipe in microwave

For baking in the microwave you can either have the things mentioned above arranged separately or simply walk up to a grocery store or supermarket and pick up a ready-to-cook packet of cake. These packets are found in all the common flavours of vanilla, chocolate, butterscotch, two-in-one and the like and also has variations of egg less ones.

For a ready-to-cook packet the instructions to prepare are always mentioned. For doing it the other way, the simple steps would be:

• Mix the powdered sugar and flour.
• Add eggs. Mix to a smooth consistency.
• Add milk and butter or oil.
• Cut and fold gently.
• Grease the container that will be used for baking.
• Pour the mixture in the container.
• Bake for twenty minutes in an oven and for about half and hour in a pressure cooker and about 8 minutes in a microwave.
• Poke a needle through the cake. If it is cooked the needle will come out smooth without having anything sticking on its sides.
• For the amount of each ingredient it would depend on the number of servings.

Easy cake recipe for kids

The best stance of baking cake for kids is to involve them. They bring in a different mood and baking becomes great fun.

Few things like the amount of each ingredient, the right temperature and total time for baking have to be taken care of when it comes to baking with kids. That’s how they begin learning the easy steps the right way.

Finally, baking is easy if each step is understood ‘why’. So make sure next time you are around mama while she’s making your favourite chocolate cake you notice all that she does and ask her all that you think you need to know and understand.