Yellow Cake with Frosting

Yellow Cake with Frosting

Ingredients for Cake
Flour 2 cups
Sugar 1 cup
Sugar ¼ cup
Baking powder 1 tbsp
Salt 1 tsp
Butter, softened ½ cup
Milk 1 cup
Vanilla essence 1 tsp
Eggs 2

For Cream Cheese Frosting
Cream cheese 8 ounces
Unsalted butter 8 tbsp
Vanilla essence 1 tsp
Icing sugar 1 cup

For Cream Frosting:
Cream 1 cup
Vanilla essence ½ tsp
Sugar 1 tbsp

Method

Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. 

Add butter, milk and vanilla. 

Beat. 

Add eggs, beat. 

Pour batter into 2 greased and floured 8- inch cake pans, dividing equally among both. 

Bake at 180 degrees C for 30 to 35 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. 

Cool in pans on wire racks. 

Turn out and cool thoroughly on wire racks. 

Frost with cream cheese or whipped cream frosting. 

For the Cream Cheese Frosting, beat cream cheese until light and fluffy, gradually beating in the butter until light and fluffy. 

Beat in vanilla. 

Add icing sugar and beat until well blended and fluffy. 

Add more icing sugar if needed to get it to the right spreading consistency. 

For the Cream Frosting, Combine all ingredients in a bowl, cover and chill, beat until stiff peaks form.

Yellow Cake With Frosting by Zarnak Sidhwa