Classic white cake

I used this recipe as a base for my rainbow cake. The fine moist crumb of this cake complements any type of filling and frosting makes for the perfect celebratory cake. This recipe makes 12 cups of batter enough to fill two 9"X13" pan. So u scale down to your needs.

Ingredients

• 6 cups sifted cake flour
• 2 tablespoons baking powder
• 1 1/2 cups butter or margarine
• 3 cups sugar
• 2 cups milk
• 1 1/4 teaspoons Pure Vanilla Extract
• 12 egg whites

Method

Preheat oven to 325°F. Grease bottom of pans and line with waxed paper. 

Sift together flour and baking powder. Set aside. Cream butter and sugar together until light and

fluffy. Set aside.

Beat egg whites until stiff, but not dry. Set aside.

With a mixer at slow speed, add flour mixture to butter mixture, alternately with milk.

Beat well after each addition. 

Beat in vanilla extract.

Fold egg whites into batter.

Pour into prepared pans. Bake until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.

Apple cake

It's fantastic easy and delicious cake ever....!! I saw this recipe on food network by Paula deen.You can make it without a mixer...Here's the recipe..

Ingredients

Cake:

• Butter, for greasing pan
• 2 cups sugar
• 3 eggs
• 1 1/2 cups vegetable oil
• 1/4 cup orange juice
• 3 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon ground cinnamon
• 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
• 3 cups peeled and finely chopped apples, i used gala apples
• 1 cup shredded coconut
• 1 cup chopped walnuts

Sauce:

• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/2 cup buttermilk
• 1/2 teaspoon baking soda

Directions

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Generously grease a pan.

For the cake: in a large bowl, combine the sugar, eggs, oil, orange juice, flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and vanilla extract; and mix well. Fold apples, coconut, and walnuts into batter.

Pour the batter into the prepared pan and bake until a toothpick inserted in the middle of pan comes out clean, about 1 1/2 hours. The time varies according to type of pan just keep eye on cake after 1 hr.

Shortly before the cake is done, make the sauce: Melt the butter in a large saucepan, stir in the sugar, buttermilk, and baking soda, and bring to a good rolling boil, stirring constantly. Boil for 1 minute. Pour the sauce over the hot cake in the pan as soon as you remove it from the oven. Let stand 1 hour, then turn out onto a rack to cool completely.

This cake test equally good with or without sauce. Yummy....you should give it a try...

Eggless Chocolate Cake

I made this cake for one of my friends birthday. I made this eggless cake so that my vegetarian friends can enjoy this too.

Ingredients

• 1½ cups Flour 
• 1 cup Sugar 
• 3 tbsp. Cocoa powder 
• ¾ tsp. Baking powder 
• ¾ tsp. Baking soda 
• 1 cup Water 
• 1 tbsp. Vinegar 
• 1 tsp. Vanilla essence 
• ¼ cup Vegetable oil 
• ½ tsp. Salt 

Preheat the oven to 350 F. Grease and flour the 9'' round pan.
Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa powder, baking powder, soda & salt together. Add the water, oil, vinegar & vanilla essence to the flour mixture. Beat until smooth and pour the batter into a greased & floured tin.
Bake at 350F  in a pre-heated oven for 30 mins or the toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean.
Let it cool in a pan for 10 mins and then transfer it on a cooling grid and allow it to cool down completely before frosting.
Here i used a Wilton butter cream frosting tinted green. The cake was yummy. Everyone enjoyed it.