Here is the recipe for a delicious vanilla Cake you can prepare on occasions like the Valentine’s Day. The Valentine’s day is celebrated by millions of people worldwide. If you are married, committed, single or away from your loved ones, you can enjoy this cake by easily preparing at home.
And yes, it has a heart inside the cake, don’t worry, we have the step by step instructions along with photos so that you can follow it easily.
Preparation Time: 15-20Minutes
Cooking Time: 35-40 Minutes for strawberry cake 35-40 minutes for vanilla cake
Ingredients for Pink Cake (for making the heart shape inside the vanilla cake)
| Ingredients | Quantity |
| All purpose flour | 2 cup |
| Baking powder | 1 teaspoon |
| Cooking Soda | 1/4 teaspoon |
| Butter | 1/4 cup |
| Powdered sugar | 3/4 cup |
| Egg | 2 |
| Strawberry essence/ Raspberry essence | 1 teaspoon |
| Milk | 1/2 cup |
Ingredients for White Vanilla Cake:
| All purpose flour | 2.5 cup |
| Baking Powder | 1 teaspoon |
| Cooking Soda | 1/4 teaspoon |
| Butter | 1/4 cup |
| Powdered sugar | 1 cup |
| Egg | 2 |
| Vanilla essence | 1 teaspoon |
| Milk | 1/2 cup plus 2-3 tbsp |
Method:
1. For strawberry cake: In a bowl, add melted butter and powdered sugar. Mix it well.
2. Add egg in the bowl, mix it again.
3. Sieve the flour, baking powder and cooking soda in a separate broad bowl. Add egg-butter-sugar mixture in the flour bowl. Add strawberry essence.
4. Add milk in the bowl, mix it gently. Don’t over mix the batter. Pre-heat the microwave oven of the convection mode at 170C.
5. Grease the baking mold with butter, dust with flour, and pour the cake batter in the mold.
6. Bake it in a pre-heated oven at 170 C for 35-40 minutes. Let it cool at the room temperature. Cut the cake into 1-inch pieces.
7. Using a heart shaped cutter (You will find this is most baking items stores) cut out the heart shapes from each 1-inch piece of the cake.
8. For Vanilla cake: In a bowl, add melted butter and powdered sugar. Mix it well.
9. Add egg in the bowl, mix it again.
10. Sieve the flour, baking powder and cooking soda in a separate broad bowl. Add egg-butter-sugar mixture in the flour bowl. Add Vanilla essence.
11. Add milk in the bowl, mix it gently. Don’t over mix the batter. Pre-heat the microwave oven of the convection mode at 170ºC. Grease the baking mold with butter, dust with flour and pour half of the Vanilla cake batter.
12. Arrange the heart shapes, we had cut out from our first cake, inline. (as shown below)
13. Then pour the rest of the vanilla Cake batter into the mould. Bake it for 35-40 minutes at 170°C.
14. Enjoy!
