The Yellow Cake...

Baking has always been my stress reliever. My mom bakes super yummy cakes... This yellow cake is her quick easy recipe. For first time bakers, I would suggest starting with this cake... It can not go wrong (fingers crossed so tight that they are blue like a smurf already)

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!