BASIC CAKE RECIPE

Ingredients for 6 to 8 persons:

• 4 eggs (about 200 grams)
• 200 grams white granulated sugar
• 200 grams unsalted butter
• 200 grams all-purpose flour
• 1 tablespoon of baking powder

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 180°C
• Split egg yolks and whites.
• Mix the egg yolks and sugar to a creamy substance, this takes at least 4-5 minutes. It needs to have a yellowy colour.
• Mix in the lightly melted butter, flour and baking powder into the yellow mixture.
• Mix the egg whites until foamy and gradually add them to the mixture. Don’t be too quick even if you want to speed things along, you’ll be sorry later as your cake will not rise.
• Butter the cake tin to make sure that the cake does not stick, if you don’t have any extra butter you can also use vegetable oil (just don’t use oil that has a flavour otherwise your cake will taste like e.g. olive oil).
• Poor the mixture in the cake tin and bake it at 180°C for 45 min up to 1 hour. When you take out the cake after 45 min you can check if it is sufficiently baked by pushing a wooden skewer into it, if there is still dough sticking to it put it back in the oven.

Tip: when you fill the cake tin it should not be filled over 75% otherwise you won’t have a nice rise.