- The 7 cup cake
- How to do it
- Individual variations
The in-laws are coming to visit, it’s your colleague’s birthday tomorrow or you need a quick cake for him mother’s day and you don’t know what to offer him? We have an easy recipe up our sleeve that varied at will can be and even without a scale is working
The recipe
Instead of a scale you use to measure complicated grams, you need the 7 cups of cake just a mug, a glass or a cup – as the name suggests. You can change the amount of cake by using a larger or smaller container. It just has to the same amount for all ingredients be. The cake can of course also be baked with vegan ingredients.
You need these:
- 1 cup (vegan) yogurt
- 1 cup (plant-based) milk
- 1 cup sunflower oil
- 2.25 cups (spelt) flour
- 0.75 cup cornstarch
- 1 cup raw cane sugar
- 1 packet of vanilla sugar
- 1 packet (tartar) baking powder
- 1 pinch of salt
How it works:
First you have to all wet ingredientsie mix the (vegan) yogurt, the (plant-based) milk and the sunflower oil in a bowl with a whisk. Then mix the dry ingredients – Spelled flour, cornstarch, cane sugar, vanilla sugar, baking powder and salt – together in a separate bowl.
Now it all comes together: Whisk the dry and wet ingredients together until you have a smooth day. Then pour the cake batter into a greased cake pan, such as a bread pan. The size of the mold depends on the size of your mug. Finally you bake it Bake at 180 degrees top and bottom heat for about 35 minutes in the oven. After that, the 7-cup cake should be ready. Enjoy your meal!
Here’s how you can change the cake
If the occasion is fancier or you fancy something more than a simple sponge cake, the 7-cup cake can be easily adapted. For the chocolate version you only use two cups of flour and a quarter cup of cocoa powder. Fruit fans can also get their money’s worth, if instead of natural yogurt, for example the vegan vanilla or blueberry yogurt come to the train Fresh berries or chocolate chips pimp the cake again. And because, as is known, the eye also eats, there are certainly some for the luggage Glaze of chocolate or icing or a light mist off powdered sugar.
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