Friends, family, strangers - welcome to my blog! My name is Trina, and I cook and bake as a hobby. I'd like to keep track of my recipes, as well as share them with my friends and family.

Cooking and baking your own food is so much healthier than buying pre-made meals at the store, and even restaurants can be a bit shifty sometimes. When you cook your own food, you know exactly what is going into your meal, and you can make it as healthy, fat-free, and flavourful as you want. Or as fatty and hearty as you want. Admittedly, most of my recipes (so far) are on the fatty, hearty, chock-full-of-meat side, but I assure you there's some of my famous vegan baking (indiscernable from baking with dairy and eggs) recipes in here!

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Dec 9, 2009

Easy Vanilla Cake

Light, white, delicious. Suitable for cakes or cupcakes. This cake is firm enough to ice and is wonderful with a basic buttercream frosting!

This isn't a recipe of mine, I believe I got it from allrecipes.com

2 c. sugar
4 eggs
2 1/2 c. flour
1 c. milk
3/4 c. vegetable oil
2 1/4 tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. vanilla (I often add an extra tsp. because I love vanilla)

Preheat oven to 350 F. Line and grease two round cake pans (or 2 x 12 cup muffin tins) with parchment paper. Beat sugar and eggs to gether until thickened, about 1 minute. Add flour, milk, oil, baking powder, and vanilla and mix for about 1 minute. Do not overbeat or underbeat! One minute is long enough to develop the glutens in the flour and incorporate lots of air into the batter.

Pour batter into pans and bake until golden and a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean (30 - 40 min for round pans, 12 - 15 min for cupcakes).
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