Simple Vanilla Sponge Cake

Ingredients:

Plain flour (maida) - 1 1/2 cups
Sugar - 1 1/2 cups
Eggs - 3 nos
Butter - 1/2 cup
Milk - 1/2 cup
Baking powder - 1 1/2 tbsp
Vanilla essence - 1 tbsp

Method:

Mix plain flour and baking powder together and keep aside.
Remove the butter from the refrigerator an hour before you start the process so that the butter is soft and blends easier.
Powder the sugar and keep aside.
In a deep bowl beat the butter with an electric blender until it is soft.
Add sugar and continue beating until you get a thick smooth batter.
Add the eggs one at a time and beat continuously.
Pour the milk and continue to beat until you get a smooth batter.
Add the vanilla essence and fold the batter using a spatula.
Now slowly add the plain flour and baking powder mixture and fold it in with the spatula. Ensure that there are no lumps formed. After adding the flour you can beat the mixture for a minute using the blender. This is to ensure that the batter is smooth and there are no lumps.
preheat your oven at 180C for 10 mins
Grease a cake mould with butter liberally (else it might be difficult to remove the cake from the mould) and sprinkle some flour. and dust it so that it spreads all over the mould.
Pour the cake batter into the mould and place the mould in the oven at the centre position.
Allow it to bake for 40 mins at 180C.
Once done remove from the oven and let it cool for 30 mins and then invert into another dish.
Yummy vanilla cake is ready.

Tip: 1) You can sprinkle some powdered sugar as soon as you remove the cake from the oven. This gives a frosting look on the cake. However this should be done when the cake is hot failing which it doesn't set.
2) You can also pour some chocolate sauce over it just before serving. However it tastes yummy even just plain.


P.S.: I made this cake at home and it came out very well. It was very soft and tasty. Everyone at home just loved it that it got over within a few hours :-)