Ingredients:
- All-Purpose Flour - 250 grams
- Sugar - 250 grams
- Butter - 250 grams
- Eggs - 5
- Baking powder - 1 tsp
- Nutmeg powder - a pinch or two
- Salt - 1 tsp
Procedure:
- Sieve together the Baking powder and All-Purpose flour and set it aside in a Bowl
- Break the eggs into another bowl and using a hand mixer, whisk up the eggs
- Make sure your butter is kept at room temperature (it should become soft to touch)
- Powder your sugar and add it to your egg mixture
- Add the butter also to your egg mixture and blend it together using your hand blender
- Add in your flour in parts to this mixture and keep blending at a medium speed
- Add in Salt and nutmeg Powder
- Blend on High for 2 minutes
- Move this mixture to your baking pan (Tips for the first time bakers - Grease your pan before using it - and when you pour in the mixture, make sure you pour only till half pan - because this cake is going to rise up and if you fill till the brim of the baking pot - its going to be really messy and you are not going to want that on your first making experience)
Oven:
- Preheat your oven to 380 deg F(193 deg C)
- Put your Baking pan on middle rack
- Bake it for 40 - 45 minutes (Tips: Different ovens behave differently - so after 35 minutes, use a skewer or a toothpick and poke at the center of the cake to check if it comes out clean - if yes, stop your oven - if the toothpick/skewer comes out a little wet with batter - then give it another 5 minutes and repeat)
Cooling and Serving:
- Take the baking pan out of the oven and set it on a table
- Let it cool a bit and then move the cake out of the pan onto a wire rack (I know the smell must be tempting but just let it cool for a few more minutes)
- After its a little cool, use a cake knife and slice it.
Storage:
- If you have made just a little cake and are sure it is going to finish within a day or two, you can store it in an air-tight container in your storage room but if you have made a little extra, then ziploc it/ put it in a container and refrigerate it.
Tips:
- If you have refrigerated your cake, 10 seconds in the microwave before serving would be perfect!
