Category: Food

Butterless Eggless Vanilla Cake

It does not brown like a regular cake. It does not smell like a regular cake. It does not taste like a regular cake. This is one cake I will not be baking often. Here is the recipe anyway.

350g flour
200g castor sugar
2/3 cup cooking oil
1and 1/2 cup water
2tsp baking powder
2tsp baking soda
2tsp essence of vanilla

Grease two 14cm round cake tins. Mix the flour and sugar. Combine cooking oil, water, baking powder and baking soda and stir just enough to mix the ingredients well. Spread mixture into prepared tin. Bake in 180C for 50 minutes. Turn onto wire rack to cool.

Rum and Raisin Cake


The wafting aroma filling the kitchen today came from the Rum and Raisin Cake, actually Cognac and Raisin Cake as I did not have rum. This cake was baked in the occasion of Mum’s birthday according to the Gregorian calendar. This is one of my more successful cakes yet. It rose nicely. It was soft and moist. I wonder what Mum’s comment would be if she could have a bite. Today marks the thirteenth week of Mum’s passing on.

Butter Cake – The Sequel


The modified ingredients:
(the original recipe is here)

125g butter, chopped
200g castor sugar
2 eggs
150g plain flour
75g self-raising flour
1/4 tsp bicarbonate soda
1 tbsp water

I used two 14cm tins instead this time. This cake is passable but a little dry and too sweet to my liking. At least it did rise. It still does not taste as good as Mum’s. I will add in the half cup milk the next time and hope the moistness will be just right. Thanks Prema for helping to troubleshoot the problem.

The next cooking project after this will be Mum’s Fermented Bean Curd Pork. I have yet to come across a restaurant, shop or economy rice stall cooking this. It is one my favourite Hakka dishes that Mum would whip up whenever I had a craving.