My First Homemade Cake 🍰 | A Little Baking Mistake but Delicious Results!
Hi foodies
Hello friends! How are you all? I hope you are all doing well. I am also doing well. Today I am back with a new post. Today I decided to bake a cake. I watched some recipes on YouTube and I wanted to make a very fluffy vanilla cake. I had never made a cake completely by myself before. Sometimes I make it with my mother but this time I made it all alone for the first time.
I already had all the ingredients available at home and I was also in the mood to bake a cake. So I started making it. I will not say that my cake turned out perfect because I made a small mistake in the middle and because of that my cake did not become very spongy. But trust me guys! Surprisingly the taste was really really good.
Cake Recipe
Now let me tell you how I made this cake. I did not take the measurements very seriously and that is why my cake did not rise properly. It was soft but it did not rise much. Still I will share the recipe with you.
Step 1: Eggs
First I took three eggs and separated the egg whites from the egg yolks. Then I beat the egg whites for 40 seconds. After beating them for 40 seconds I added half a cup of sugar. By the way do not add all the sugar at once. Add it little by little while mixing.
After that we have to keep mixing until the egg whites become completely foamy. Unfortunately no matter how much I beat them they did not become foamy. I beat them for almost 10 minutes but they still did not become foamy. So I thought it was okay and decided to move to the next step.
Step 2: Egg Yolks
Next I mixed the egg yolks that we had separated earlier. Then I added a pinch of salt. After that I added the egg yolk mixture to the egg whites and whisked everything again. The quantity of the mixture increased after mixing.
Step 3: Dry Ingredients
Now it was time to add the dry ingredients. First I added one and a half cups of flour. The recipe mentioned half a cup but I don't know why I thought it said one and a half cups. So I added one and a half cups. This was my mistake but still my cake tasted really delicious.
After adding the flour I added one tablespoon of corn flour and one teaspoon of baking powder. Then I sifted everything properly with the help of a strainer.
Now we will add these dry ingredients to our egg mixture little by little and keep mixing. You should only use half a cup of flour. Do not add more than that or your cake may also turn out wrong.
Mix it little by little and do not overmix it. Mix very gently otherwise the foam in our egg mixture will disappear and our cake will not become spongy.
When I mixed the dry ingredients with the egg mixture, the batter was supposed to be liquidy but it became hard like dough because I had added too much flour.
Step 4: Oil and Milk Mixture
Now in another bowl I added two tablespoons of oil one tablespoon of milk and one teaspoon of vanilla essence. I mixed everything properly.
After mixing I added a little bit of the cake batter to this oil mixture. Then I mixed it and added this mixture back into the remaining cake batter.
After mixing everything my batter had become just like dough because I had added too much flour. If you use half a cup of flour this will not happen.
So because of this I added one third cup of milk and half a cup of pineapple juice. I had pineapple juice available at home so I thought I would use that.
After adding these ingredients the mixture became a little more liquid.
Step 5: Baking
Then I preheated my oven for 30 minutes. Now our batter was completely ready.
I greased the cake mould properly with oil. Then I placed butter paper inside it and poured the cake mixture into the mould.
After that I placed it inside my microwave oven for about 30 minutes. And after half an hour our cake was ready!
Final Result
So guys this is the final result of my cake. It was really delicious and its colour also turned out very beautiful.
The only mistake was that it did not rise properly because I added too much flour.
Next time I will share this recipe with you all again. This time I will follow all the measurements properly. Then I will tell you how my cake turns out.
So guys if you liked my cake please let me know in the comment section and support me as always.
Thank you so much and bye bye!
That's all for today I will be back soon with something new to share until then stay happy and keep supporting.