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
wow, shilpa, this simple cake looks so fresh & yummmm!
Hi,
Yummy.i do prepare in same way.
The outer layer of cook looks golden brown and i think it is very soft .Good Shilpa,i LIKE YOR CAKE.
Hi Shilpa,
I will try your capsicum fry.
vineela
hi Shilpa,
thats a nice & simple cake, i make it the same way too. Just one request..can you post recipe of brinjal curry dharwad style if possible, i tasted it back in India & it was mouth watering!!
Suma, I think you are asking for “Ennegayi”. I will post it soon. (Just have to wait till I get those small brinjals, may be I can go to market on weekend to get it).
Hey shilpa….thats right!! its exactly what it is called…i had almost forgotten the name. Thanks for reminding and will eagerly wait for your recipe.
The cake looks very soft & fluffy. Bet it tastes yummy too. Well done to u.
Hi
Looks good, Can u pls tell, What kind of a pan did u use, coz that shape looks so good
Thanks Pushpa. Now I am sure it is good, a comment from baking queen herself is a big compliment
. Thanks.
Sheeba, Thanks for your comment. I used the normal pyrex bakeware(1.9 L round one).
hi Shilpa,
yesterday was my engagement day, It be 7 years now I wanted to do something nice and simple and tried your cake recipe. It was simply superb, I am glad that my family liked it.
Thank you so much for sharing.
Radha.
hey Shilpa
i was looking for this cake recipe .. n u know what i am trying this recipe now !!! please wish me luck ..
yeah n one more thing i forgot to say .. THANKS FOR THIS RECIPE
Radha, Reena thanks a lot for the words
. Reena all the best 
hey shilpa me was also looking for the simple egg cake.i will try it.thnx for sharing
Shilpa… I made this cake today. So simple and tasty. It came out very well. Thanks a lot to you and pachi for such a wonderful recipe.
hi Shilpa,
Thannks for this simple recipe.it’s gr8..but kindly help me….i tried banana carrot cake ..it all spilled out…please help me out…i have an oven which is set on percentages like 0%, 20%…..100%…no temperature setting….whenever i try baking a cake..it turns out to be messy…..kindly guide me to bake a cake…………
Thanks Aruna.
Liz, Spilled out? may be you used a small vessel. Usually when I bake cakes I make sure to fill the vessel only till half (use a bigger vessel if you have more dough). About the settings, you need to do trial and error. Set to 80% (I am just guessing) and keep checking the cake every 10mins or so. I hope you get good cake next time (if you have any more doubts, please mail me and I will be happy to help you. My email address is at the top).
Hi Shilpa,
Thanks for your quick reply….i have noted ur email id….
i will try as u say and get back to u…..
hi shilpha ,i tried ur cake today….But instead of the sugar i had added the splenda….I dont know whether i over cooked it or not , but i had cooked it for 40 mts, the cake came out crisper…..It had brown crust on the both the sides….Can u kindly tell me what went wrong??
Nandita, please follow the instructions I gave to Liz in above comment. As the ovens differ, atleast for first few times, you should be very careful. Also use the middle rack for baking the cake.
thanks a lot shilpha…Anyways i had used the middle rack for baking…….Just wanted to ask u whether it make major change in the softness when u use sugar and the sweetner ……Will try it out next time
As i do not like the smell of eggs here in US, i used 3 eggs and 1/4 spoon baking soda. It came out exactly like the way i baked before and also the good thing was i did not get the smell of eggs.
Hi Shilpa,
I am new to your blog (to cooking also). Tomorrow is my hubby’s birth day. So, I prepared a cake following your recipe. It came out really great. Thanks alot for the simple recipe.
Wow Shilpa!
Excellent! Amazing! are words too small for the recipe. Too good.Continue the good work.
Cheers
Su
Hi shilpa,
Your cake recipe looks good and simple. Am not good at baking cakes. Have tried out few times and the result has not been very impressive. I seemed to something wrong . Just one quick dumb question, butter should be softened /melted ?
hello shilpa,
thnx for the recipe…just wanted to ask can we do icing on this cake,,and if yes can u plz tell hw is it done??
hi shilpa,
I was too impressed to see all different kinds of receipies posted here by u…
i would really like to know how to prepare a simple cake without oven as i dont have one….plssss…thanks
Thanks a lot for this recipe. I will definetly do this and let u know.
Hi,
Tried this cake yesterday.It came out too good.The batter was too thick unlike other cakes I have prepared(this is my third) so there was no need to worry about bubbles in the batter!It wasnt even dropping consistency!Do you get thick batter too?Do reply.But cake turned out perfect.This is a recipe to keep for me!Thanx.
Swarna, I think this cake batter is a bit thicker(I am confused as I bake so many different cakes). But I think, if it came out well, the consistency does not matter. I can tell for sure the measurements I have given above are the exact ones that I use. I have baked it so many times and it was always a hit.
thanks for the wonderful simple egg cake.
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try these recipes too… they r easy and turn out great!
Thanks for recipe. Tastes great, tried today.
hey shilpa, wanna try this cake. I have oven but i donno what kind of container do i use for baking a cake? also, my oven goes till 250degree only… what do i do? can i bake a cake without using vanilla extract or any flavour?
Zen, use any normal oven proof dish. I think your oven temperature is given in Celsius and I have mentioned Fahrenheit here. So you can keep your temperature at around 175. I don’t think it would taste good without any flavor. I would suggest to use vanilla.
Hi Shilpa
Thanks a lot…i tried cake for the first time and it came out well….:)
Hi shilpa,
Can i add cocoa powder to this cake.
Divya, I never tried adding cocoa powder to this cake. Sorry.
Hi Shilpa..
That was a good recipe.I am new to the cake preparation.Have some doubts.
The color of the cake was dark brown both the texture and inside.I used baking soda instead of baking powder.Will that be the reason?
Also,can i reduce the quantity of the egg?is it possible?
And finally a request..could you put a soft carrot cake recipe…i enjoy the way you narrate the steps…easy and quick for begineers like me!!:)
Once again thanks for the lovely recipe made simple yet yummy!!!
Regards,
Sridevi
Sridevi, Did the cake get burnt? Baking soda/powder does not make them dark brown. I am not sure what went wrong.
Decreasing the egg might not be a good idea. It might make the cake hard and soggy. You can give it a try by baking a small cake.
There are two carrot cake recipes on the site. Please check out the cake section under “Main Menu”.
Thanks Shilpa for the quick repsonse.
No the cake was good…did not burnt but was confused since it was not that golden brown color in the top and yellowish white inside.So thought of asking you.
Yeah i got the carrot cake recipe in the site.
Could you tell me what are the additional accessories needed for giving icing.I wish you bake the carrot cake and give it a cream coating.Is this possible?
Regards,
Sridevi
Sridevi, If you want to decorate the cake well, you will require a lot of different accessories. Each decoration requires different tip. It is okay to put buttercream or simple vanilla icing on carrot cake, it tastes good.
Hey, Shilpa, I don’t know what kind of butter to use for the cakes. Everytime I bake one, it turns very hard and sometimes get burnt.
Sarah, did you try this recipe? I think getting burnt or hard may not be the problem of butter. You can use any normal butter for this.
Hi Shilpa,
Just curious to know, should i soften the butter before beating it with sugar for any cake recipe? or can i directly use it after taking it out from fridge? should i measure it before or after softening?just wondering if it makes any difference.
Nayak mayi, you can keep the butter outside for about 2hrs before using, or else, you can microwave it for 50secs. If it is soft, you can easily mix it with sugar, otherwise it is too difficult. If you are using the store bought butter, they have measurements written on it (usually one stick is 1/2 cup). So you can use it directly.
hi shilpa
i read yr recipe for cake. i m just the biginner so i m afraid to try the cake . but since i love it very much i cant stop trying it. i tried doing cake for three times but they super flop. pls send me the simplest way to prepare eggless cake with much smaller quantity. i will be very thankful to you and will be waiting for your reply
Gauri, Did you try this recipe or something else? I bake this cake almost every week now, so I am not sure what went wrong when you tried. There is a date cake recipe on the site which you can check out and try. If you want less quantity, you can proportionately decrease the quantity of all the ingredients.
HI SHILPA:
UR SITE IS WONDERFUL.AFTER A LONG SEARCH I FIND THIS SIMPLE AND USEFUL SITE.WISH U A GOOD LUCK.
Egg cake was fabulous. I baked for the first time. everybody appreciated the cake. I have a question can we minimise the sugar quantity given? if we minimise the sugar quantity will the cake taste in the same manner. Thank you Shilpa for the recipe
Shilpa: Fio, if you decrease the sugar, cake will not be that sweet. I like so much sugar in it because this cake is mildly sweet and I would not want to decrease the sweetness. You can give it a try if you felt it is too sweet.