Simple egg cake
Sharing the cake recipes, that I have tried recently, was on my to-do list for a long time. I thought may be I can start with this cake. I have posted banana cake recipe a few days back, but this will be the first recipe anybody will give you, if you want to learn baking cakes).
I am successfully pursuing the baking art and its whole and sole credit should go to my Pachi(Aayi’s sister). When I was a kid, many times I observed her baking some delicious cakes. I always wondered, ‘How she manages to do that? Only professional bakers are supposed to do that!!! Its such a big procedure’. I never thought one day I would bake cakes!!. I never even tried to ask her about the recipe.
Then when we got our first oven, Pachi gave me this recipe. I prepared it and it was so good and it was so easy 
. Still this cake is on my favorite list.
Ingredients:
1 cup butter
1 and 1/4 cups sugar
1 and 1/2 cups maida or All purpose flour
1 tea spn baking powder
4 eggs
1 tea spn vanilla essence/extract
Method:
Preheat the oven at 350F for 10min.
Sieve together flour and powder. Keep it aside.
Beat sugar in butter till it becomes a smooth paste. Then add one egg at a time beating it all the time. Add essence and mix.
Add flour 1 tbl spoon at a time mixing slowly.
Grease an oven safe dish with butter. Then sprinkle some flour on it and spread the flour. Now pour the cake mixture into this dish and bake the cake for around 40min at 350F (or till a knife inserted in the cake comes out clean).
Serves : 4
Preparation time : 1hr
Cake turned out good .
By mistake I put 1 cup flour still it was yummy and disappeared within half an our .thanks
my daughter is allergic to milk so I wanted the exact cake .
my daughter is allergic to milk .and i was searching for something like this cake and it was more good than expected
i love to bake i love this web sit i just found it and i love it alread i just got on a minte ans hafe a go.
i love ur cake and i wish to no more about ur preparation
Hi
Its lovely. It looks very soft & fluffy. Test is ummmmmmmm yummy.
Hi Shilpa,
Firstly you have a great website. Best Wishes for that. Nextly I tried the cake recipe and it turned out well except that the cake wasnt as spongy as I had expected. Could you tell me which ingredient will make it more spongy?
Thanks,
Chandan
Shilpa: Eggs and baking powder.
Dear Shilpa,
I liked the web site v much..am seeing it for the first time.
I am recently married a month ago and i find this site soo exciting to make my husband happy with these dishes.
Shilpa my request to u..May 28th is my Hubby’s b’day and i want to make this memorable for life time..need ur help in this. I want to prepare a simple cake while will burst when it is cut and all the cream will be spalshed on ur face. I have seen this type of cake somewhere in india…presently am in sydney so i want to prepare it myself…also i dont hav a oven pls suggest how can i make without oven.
Can u pls post the recipe of it…or can u suggest how can i make it…it wud be of grt help.
Thanx in advance.
Shilpa: Sorry, I don’t know
Hi, Can i bake this cake without using the vanilla essence ..?.. as i dont have it on hand now.. I want to try n use lemon zest
in the cake..pls tel me the amount of lemon zest that i can use for above cake. N i Hope the cake wont smell eggy after baking..? pls advice.
Thanks
Rita.
Shilpa: Sorry, I don’t know.
Hi,
I tried baking this cake but i guess soemthing went wrong. It was uncooked from inside and burnt from the outside. I have a simple otg which does not give me the option of selecting the fahrenhiet or celsius. it just has the timer and to select which sides to be cooked(as in top , lower or bottom), the instructors manual said it should be around 5-6 minutes but it does not cook it in that time and if i increase the timer the cake burns.
Please please please help me as my son loves cakes and am unable to bake a perfect one for him
Thanks,
Ishita
Shilpa: Sorry Ishita, I have no idea. Unless I experiment myself, I cannot give any tips.
This cake reminded me the one which we used to have as kid. I m planning to try the same tonight. Till date I had baked quite a few cakes of diff varities. My husband likes the same but he always tells that the taste of cake is missing. By looking at the picute i feel , it ll have the same taste.
HI Shilpa, I will try this Simple egg cake recipe . Thanks
hi
nice recipe but how to make in microwave pls reply
thanx
I started making this recipe last year!!!..My mom used to make it this way + she used to put some condensed milk…I used to love it a lot!!!..Now i make this very often for my 3 yr old Son…he is crazy after cakes
..Thank u for Sharing this gr8 simple recipe with us.
Hey,
It was my husband’s friends b’day yesterday. I prepared a cake by following recipe from the famous marathi book “Ruchira”. That book doesnt have exact amount of ingredients in terms of cups or spoons.. all the ingredients mentioned are in grams. Also exact baking temperatures and time isnt mentioned in that book. So I prepared another cake by following your recipe. It turned out so well
I cannot thank you enough… Thanks so much
Geeta
Actually , i like this recipe . but 1 question arises that, i m having microwave without convection and all , so for how minutes should i keep this batter ?
i need reply from ur side..
I haven’t tried baking it in microwave. Try keeping it for 5mins and then check if it is done. If not, keep for longer.
Hi,
Can you tell me exactly how much this cake will weigh once its done.
My small kenwood oven can bake max 475 gms. only. Appreciate if I could get the exact measurement for baking 475 gms. cake. If its turns out well and my hubby is impressed he would buy me a bigger oven.
Sorry, I have no idea. I haven’t measured the cake in gms