Cake with simple decoration

Name: Cake with simple decoration
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 3 cups flour (self rising); 1 cup sugar; 1 cup vegetable oil; 1 cup of milk at room temperature; 10 ml baking powder; 15 ml vanilla essence; 4 eggs at room temperature; 1 Tea spoon icing to do the topping

Carol Chebet @cook_14374956

Cake with simple decoration

Carol Chebet @cook_14374956

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Ingredients

3 cupsflour (self rising)
1 cupsugar
1 cupvegetable oil
1 cupof milk at room temperature
10 mlbaking powder
15 mlvanilla essence
4eggs at room temperature
1 Tea spoonicing to do the topping

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Steps

1

Preheat oven to 170°C
2

Apply oil and later add flour to the baking tin and place it aside.
3

Separate egg white and egg yolk.In a different bowl beat egg white at high speed while adding sugar till it becomes fluffy with air bubbles.
4

In a different bigger bowl beat the egg yolks at high speed for 4minutes.
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Add vegetable oil and mix for 2 minutes
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Add vanilla essence to the egg yolks mixture
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In a separate bowl mix dry ingredients together (flour and baking powder)
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Add the dry ingredients in the bigger bowl slowly as you add milk till you get a consistent paste.
9

Add the already beaten egg whites to the mixture and mix moderately.Add raisins if you wish.Avoid over mixing.
10

Put the mixture in the baking tin and try to remove air bubbles by hitting the tin in flat table surface.or use a knife to try remove the air spaces.
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Put it in the oven for 40 minutes at 170°C and 180°C for 10 minutes.Total of 50 minutes.
12

After 50 minutes check if the cake is ready by inserting a toothpick.If it comes out dirty return it to the oven for 10 minutes at 180°C.
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After let the cake cool for 10 minutes the cover with cling film to prevent hard areas to form.
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After 1 hour,Serve to it.You can seive a table spoon of icing sugar on top of the cake to add flavour.