My go-to cake recipe

Friday is the most important day for us, so I always like to make the day a bit more special. One of the ways I do that is by food- making our main meal a bit more elaborate, or just making one of my family's favourite food. Another thing is baking. I like baking something specifically on Fridays, and it's become a bit like a family tradition at this point. It doesn't really need to be very fancy, but just baking something like a cake or cookies is highly appreciated. 

Our favourite cake is what I regularly make. It's a simple recipe and doesn't really need kitchen equipment. I've been using this recipe for well over a decade and I don't even know anymore where I got the recipe from, really. And I don't really have a recipe written down because it's all in my head 😆 but that's about to change! I thought to share it here with my readers. 

For one round cake pan (I think it's ø28 cm, but you can also use a rectangle shape or even casserole pan, etc), you'll need: 

1 cup of granulated sugar

4 medium sized eggs, or 3 large eggs 

1 cup of neutral oil (canola, corn, soy, peanut... just anything that would fall under vegetable oil I guess) 

1 cup of milk 

1.5 tablespoons of my "homemade" vanilla sugar but you can use regular vanilla sugar or vanilla extract (for us it needs to be alcohol free so we don't use extract)

2 cups of all purpose flour (scooped, not spooned) + 1.5 tablespoons of baking powder 

Mix the sugar and eggs using a whisk. They don't have to be very fluffy or pale, just whisking for a minute or so is enough. Then add the oil, wisk again. Then the milk and vanilla sugar. Then scoop two cups of plain all purpose flour and measure 1.5 tablespoons of baking powder. I use a small sieve for the baking powder as it tends to have clumps sometimes, it makes it easier to devide it evenly in the batter. 

Whisk very well and mix until there are no more clumps visible. Now your cake batter is ready! 

I bake it at 180° c (360 °f) for one hour. I must add that my oven doesn't heat up like other ovens do, so 150° c (310 ° f) would come closer to the real temperature needed for this cake. 

Let it cool down before slicing, then enjoy with a nice cup of coffee or tea 🍵