What I love the most about this recipe, besides how good it tastes is that:

• it is a one bowl recipe, not need for creaming sugars and all that stuff.
• it makes a large cake, that makes it through most of the week for school lunches.
• it doesn’t need icing (alhtough it is extra tasty with it!).

Butter Cake Recipe

I scribbled this recipe down from a Donna Hay magazine years ago and it is a favourite with the kids.

Ingredients:

• 2 1/2 cups plain flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 1 3/4 cups caster sugar
• 250 grams unsalted butter, melted
• 4 eggs
• 3/4 cups milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions:

1. Preheat oven to 160 degrees Celsius.
2. In a large bowl mix flour, sugar, baking powder, milk, eggs, butter and vanilla. I use a hand beater for a quick minute or two.
3. Grease and line a round cake tin with baking paper. Pour the mixture into tin. The original recipe called for a 22cm tin, but I only have a 25cm one which works out fine.
4. Cook for approx an hour. Check at this point with a skewer and cook for further five minute increments if the skewer doesn’t come out clean.
5. Allow the cake to cool in the tin for a few minutes, before moving to a wire rack.

In the photo above, to have the cake sit nicely on the plate, I sliced the top of the cake off and turned it upside down. Then the 3 year old helped me dust it (quite heavily!) with icing sugar.

Do you have a tried and tested butter cake recipe?

The Family Menu Plan For This Week

More simple and easy family fare to make life a little easier for myself this week.

Baking: Rice Bubble Slice

Monday: Mexibake

Tuesday: Baked Tomato and Basil Gnocchi

Wednesday: Left Overs

Thursday: Spicy Chutney Chicken With Mixed Rice

Friday: Homemade Pizza

Saturday: 11 Year Old’s Birthday Party!

Sunday: Roast Chicken and Vegetables

For more menu planning ideas head on over to Laura’s place at “I’m an Organizing Junkie“.Tweet

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