Homemade cake mix

Serves:

Ingredients

• 2 cups plain flour
• 1½ cups sugar
• 1 tbsp baking powder

To make the cake:

• ¾ cup milk
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• 125g butter, softened
• 3 eggs

Method

To create the cake mixes for later use, just combine the flour, sugar and baking powder in a resealable bag and store for up to 3 months in the pantry.

To bake the cake:

Preheat oven to 180°C or 160°C fan-forced. Line 2 x 20cm cake tins with baking paper and set aside.

To make the cake mix, tip the bag of dry ingredients into a bowl, add milk, vanilla, butter and eggs and beat for 3 minutes. Pour into the cake tins.

Bake for 20 minutes or until centre of cakes bounce back after being touched lightly.

Notes:

• To make this a chocolate cake you can add ¼ cup of cocoa per mix. You can also add this to the bags in the beginning if you want chocolate cake mixes.
• The reason these only keep for three months is that baking powder needs to be fresh to act correctly in the recipe.
• This recipe was created by Jennifer Cheung for Kidspot, New Zealand’s best recipe finder.

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