Simple Melt and Mix Vanilla Cakes

These simple melt and mix vanilla cakes will become a go to recipe. Place all ingredients in a bowl, mix and bake, they will be ready in no time.

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This recipe is based on a Donna Hay vanilla cupcake recipe that I found a while ago. After making Donna’s recipe a few times, I wanted to cut down the sugar that was in hers.

So that’s what I did reduce the amount of sugar and upped the vanilla.

On this occasion instead of making cupcakes I decided to try out my new mini Bundt cake tin. When I say new, this actually means that it has been sitting in my cupboard for probably 12 months and I just haven’t had the chance to use it yet.

I am hopeless. I am a baking ware hoarder. I have tins that were my grandmother’s and ones that were mum’s, and then if I see anything exciting online or in the shops, all of a sudden it is adopted.

Sadly I have the same addiction to cookie cutters. I have cookie cutters that are yet to touch dough.

These melt and mix vanilla cakes are dead easy to make. Put all the ingredients in a bowl and mix. Simple. I do love simple baking.

This is also a great recipe for kids to make.

You can also make cupcakes with this recipe. They are great to decorate as they end up with pretty flat tops on them. I used this recipe last Christmas to make some melting snowman cupcakes for my niece.

It is a larger crumbed cake due to the method of making. They are also moist and buttery.

I have iced these melt and mix vanilla cakes, but you don’t have to. The icing that you can see in the photos is a basic icing but I added some freeze dried plum powder to colour and flavour it. A bit of an experiment with a new product I am playing with (more about that later).

A simple dusting of icing sugar or confectioner’s sugar over the top of the cakes will be just as pretty.

Sara xxx

Simple Melt and Mix Vanilla Cakes

Course: Cakes &amp

Prep Time: 5 minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes

Total Time: 35 minutes

Servings: 6

Author: Sara

These simple pour and mix vanilla cakes will become a go to recipe. Place all ingredients in a bowl, mix and bake, they will be ready in no time.

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Ingredients

• 190 grams (1.25 cups) plain flour, sifted
• 1 teaspoon baking powder, sifted
• 165 grams (3/4 cup) caster sugar
• 125 grams butter
• 2 eggs
• 180 ml (3/4 cup) milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

icing

• 180 grams (1 cup) icing sugar, sifted
• 25 grams (1 tablespoon) butter, melted
• 25 ml (1 tablespoon) milk
• a couple of drops of desired colour and flavour.

Instructions

1. Preheat oven 160 deg C (325 deg F).  Grease cake tin or use a muffin tin lined with 12 paper cases.

2. Melt butter and leave to cool slightly.

3. In a large bowl place sifted flour, baking powder, caster sugar, butter, eggs milk and vanilla.  Mix well until combined.

4. Spoon mixture in to cake tin/paper cases and bake for 25 - 30 minutes.

5. Cakes are cooked when tested with a skewer and it comes out clean.  Remove cakes from cake/muffin tin and cool on a wire rack.

Icing

1. In a medium bowl mix icing sugar, butter, milk and any colouring or flavouring you would like to use.  Add a teaspoon of milk extra at a time if needed to create the consistency you require for your icing.

Recipe Notes

This recipe will make 6 larger mini cakes or 12 cupcakes.

Cooking time for the 6 larger cakes will be approximately 30 minutes, the cupcakes will take 20-25 minutes.

Cakes are wonderful plain or they can be iced with your favourite icing.

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