Best Cake recipes

[Bakers12]

What are some of your favorite, simple, cake recipes? Ones that require a minimal amount of ingredients, and preferably made from scratch not cake mixes. I'm trying to expand my baking repertoire, so that I can make something new every couple of weeks.

 

[ChesterV]

The EASIEST cake I know of, is this one....

Cuppa, Cuppa, Cuppa Cake

Cuppa cake flour
Cuppa brown sugar
Cuppa diced fruit or fruit cocktail (in juice)

Mix, pour into 8 inch cake pan, bake at 350 for about 35 minutes, or till golden brown.

It's more like a cobbler, but if you over bake it, it gets more cake like.

This is REALLY good served hot, with either whipped cream or ice cream on top!

If you like this kind of cake, sprinkle some cinnamon sugar or allspice sugar on top before baking!

 

[ChesterV]

Easy Buttermilk Bundt Cake

Ingredients

• 2 sticks salted butter (softened)
• 1 cup sugar
• 21/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 tsp baking soda
• 4 eggs
• 1 cup buttermilk
• 1 tbsp vanilla extract

Directions

Preheat oven to 350 F and grease a bundt pan (set it aside).
Cream the butter together with the sugar until pale and fluffy.
Add the eggs one at a time, mixing well between each addition. Stir in the vanilla.

Sift together the flour and baking soda. Add to the butter mixture alternatively with the buttermilk. Mix until everything is incorporated.

Pour the mixture into the greased bundt pan and bake for 50 minutes to 1 hour, or until a skewer inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.

Cool in the pan for about 10 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

This is a basic recipe and anything else can be added to the batter or in the batter to make it a different cake--

Candied fruit
Chopped fruit
Nuts
Candy pieces
Peanut Butter
Chocolate
Poppy Seeds
Sesame Seeds
Rum Flavoring (or the real thing if you prefer)
Coconut
Butterscotch
Beer (yes, beer)
Champagne
Honey
Chopped, cooked hard Bacon (yes, bacon)


Well, you get the idea.