Yellow Cake with Frosting

Yellow Cake with Frosting

Ingredients for Cake

• Flour 2 cups
• Sugar 1 cup
• Sugar ¼ cup
• Baking powder 1 tbsp
• Salt 1 tsp
• Butter, softened ½ cup
• Milk 1 cup
• Vanilla essence 1 tsp
• Eggs 2

Cream Cheese Frosting

• Cream cheese 8 ounces
• Unsalted butter 8 tbsp
• Vanilla essence 1 tsp
• Icing sugar 1 cup

Cream Frosting:

• Cream 1 cup
• Vanilla essence ½ tsp
• Sugar 1 tbsp

Method

• Sift together flour, sugar, baking powder and salt. Add butter, milk and vanilla. Beat. Add eggs, beat. Pour batter into 2 Greased and floured 8- inch cake pans, dividing equally among both. Bake at 180 degrees C for 30 to 35 minutes or until toothpick comes out clean. Cool in pans on wire racks. Turn out and cool thoroughly on wire racks. Frost with cream cheese or whipped cream frosting. For the Cream Cheese Frosting, beat cream cheese until light and fluffy, gradually beating in the butter until light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla. Add icing sugar and beat until well blended and fluffy. Add more icing sugar if needed to get it to the right spreading consistency. For the Cream Frosting, Combine all ingredients in a bowl, cover and chill, beat until stiff peaks form.