Vanilla Cake

Name: Vanilla Cake
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 250 g unsalted butter; 250 g caster sugar; 3 tsp vanilla extract; 5 eggs cracked in a jug; 100 g full fat Greek yogurt; 1 tbsp plain flour; 250 g self-raising flour; 3 tbsp milk; 50 g caster sugar; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 300 g icing sugar; 150 g softened butter

Maria 🐨 @cook_25187952

Vanilla Cake

Maria 🐨 @cook_25187952

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Ingredients

1h 10m

250 gunsalted butter
250 gcaster sugar
3 tspvanilla extract
5eggs cracked in a jug
100 gfull fat Greek yogurt
1 tbspplain flour
250 gself-raising flour
3 tbspmilk
For the syrup
50 gcaster sugar
1 teaspoonvanilla extract
For the butter cream
300 gicing sugar
150 gsoftened butter

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Steps

1h 10m

1

Heat oven to gas mark 3. Grease 2 round, deep 20cm tin, then line the base and sides with non-stick baking paper.
2

Using an electric whisk, beat the butter, sugar, vanilla and ¼ tsp salt together until pale and fluffy.
3

Then pour in the eggs, one at a time, giving the mix a really good beating before adding the next.
4

Add 1 tbsp of the plain flour if the mix starts to look slimy rather than fluffy. Beat in the yogurt.
5

Fold the flour into the mixture followed by the milk
6

Divide the the mixture between the tins and bake for 1h 10m until golden brown - a skewer inserted should come out clean
7

Meanwhile, make the syrup by gently heating 50ml water with the sugar and vanilla in a pan until the sugar dissolves. Set aside.
8

Once the cake is out of the oven, leave to cool for 30 mins in the tin, then use a skewer to poke holes all over the cake, going right to the bottom. Pour the syrup over, letting it completely soak in after each addition.
9

Also, whilst the cakes are in the oven make the butter cream.
Add half the icing sugar to the butter and beat. Once combined add in the rest of the icing sugar.
10

Spread the icing between the two cakes