Tea Cake
Ingredients :
- wheat flour - 1 + 1/4 cup
- corn flour - 2 tbs
- baking powder - 1 tsp
- salt - 1/4 tsp
- unsalted butter at room temperature - 1/2 cup
- sugar - 1 cup (powdered)
- eggs - 3
- vanilla essence - 1/2 tsp
- milk - 1/2 cup
Method
step 1 : preheating the oven
- If you have an electric oven preheat t 180 degree C for 10 minutes
- If you don't have an oven heat up 1 cup of salt in a heavy bottom vessel with a ring inside, for 10 minutes on medium heat
step 2 : preparing cake pan
- grease an 8" pan and line with butter paper
step 3 : preparing cake batter
- mix together wheat flour, corn flour, baking powder and salt
- sift well and keep aside
- in a separate bowl beat together utter and sugar until creamy and fluffy
- take 3 eggs in another bowl and beat well until frothy
- now collect the froth with a spoon and mix in butter-sugar mixture
- repeat the procedure till the eggs are finished
- mix in vanilla essence
- then sift in the flour mixture as 3 batches and fold gently
- add in 1/2 cup of milk and make a smooth batter
- pour it in the prepared pan and tap
- place in the preheated oven and bake until a toothpick inserted came out clean
- if you are baking in stovetop oven bake on high flame for the first 5 minutes. then bake on low medium flame for 40 minutes
- when it is ready take out from oven
- remove from pan after 10 minutes
- cut it when it is completely cool
- enjoy with tea or coffee
- I used wheat flour insted of maida for this cake to make make it more nutritious.
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