Any simple cake recipes?

i want to bake a cake .....but im bored with the usual fairy cakes.any ideas?Any simple cake recipes?
I have a really simple recipe for a chocolate cake. I make it all the time and it takes great and takes no time to make.





Preheat the oven at 180 degrees or gas mark 4.


Pour in about 100g of self-raising flour, 3 tablespoons of cocoa powder, 75g of sugar. Then add an egg and three tablespoons of oil (any type will do). Mix together and add about tablespoons of water until its a nice consistency (quite runny).





Put it in a cake tin and then leave in the oven for 30 minutes at gas mark 4 or 180 degrees.Any simple cake recipes?
Basic Victoria Sponge:





3 eggs and their weight in self-raising (self-rising) flour, caster (super fine) sugar and butter. Use real butter.





You need a food mixer, something like a Kenwood Chef or a Kitchen Chef appliance. Or you can do it by hand - really tiring!





Cream the butter and sugar until smooth. Add the eggs one at a time while beating at medium setting. Sift the flour and carefully mix in.





Grease and flour or line with parchment two cake tins. Bake at about 200 degrees Celsius, 390 degrees Fahrenheit, Gas Mark 6 until a skewer comes out clean from the centre of the cake. Usually this is between 25 and 35 minutes.





Turn the cakes out onto a cake rack to cool. When cool, place the first cake upside down on a plate and spread the now top surface with filling. This can be jam, cream and jam, butter icing or butter icing and jam. Place the second cake on top the right way up, so you have the two flat surfaces joined by the filling.





This cake can be flavoured with various flavourings. Examples are lemon (best in my opinion), orange or lime. Grate some zest into the cake mixture together with a small amount of juice at the add flour stage. Use flavoured butter icing, flavoured with more of the juice. Chocolate: remove two tablespoons of flour from the weighed flour and replace with two tablespoons of cocoa. Make a butter icing flavoured with cocoa. Vanilla: add a few drops of extract to the cake mixture. Flavour the butter icing or cream with vanilla extract or seeds from a pod.
chocolate cake with cola - i love this receipe and so does everyone who has tried it - its proberly the only cake i can make that does not taste like scrambled egg.





Ingredients


250g/9oz self raising flour


300g/10陆oz golden caster sugar


3 heaped tbsp cocoa


generous pinch bicarbonate of soda


250g/9oz butter


250ml/8陆fl oz cola drink


125ml/4录fl oz milk


2 eggs, beaten


5ml/ltsp vanilla extract





For the topping: Double quantities if you like a thick frosting


100g/3陆oz butter


2 tbsp cola drink


2 tbsp cocoa


200g/7oz icing sugar


To Serve:


caramel chocolate bar (king size)


a splash of double cream


warm water


2 tbsp mini marshmallows (optional)











Method


1. Heat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas4.


2. Sift the flour, sugar, cocoa and bicarbonate of soda into a bowl. Melt the butter and cola drink gently in a pan then add to the dry ingredients, together with the milk, eggs and vanilla.


3. Mix gently but thoroughly and tip into a buttered, loose based cake tin (24cm/9陆 in diameter). Bake for about 40 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean. Remove from the oven and leave for about 15 minutes while you make the topping. Put the butter, cola drink and cocoa into a pan and melt slowly. Bring the mixture to the boil and then pour onto the icing sugar. Beat until smooth and pour over the cake while still warm. Cool the cake in the tin.


4. Serve with the sauce, made by melting the chocolate bar gently in a pan with a splash of cream, you may want to add a little warm water to achieve a pouring consistency, stir in the marshmallows if using. The sauce is rich and sweet, as is the topping, you may want to serve with one or the other rather than both.






JELLO ';POKE'; CAKE





1 bx. yellow or white cake mix


1 (3 oz.) bx. red jello


1 (8 oz.) carton Cool Whip topping


9 x 13 baking dish


Optional flavor combination: lemon cake mix - orange or lemon jello





Bake cake according to package directions. While cake is cooling in its pan, poke holes all over with large fork. Mix jello according to package directions. Drizzle jello liquid over cake. Make sure jello penetrates all holes. Chill several hours or overnight. Frost chilled cake with whipped topping. Serve.



Apple Pudding Dessert Cake





2 eggs





3/4 C. brown sugar, packed





1 t. vanilla extract





1 C. flour





2 1/2 t. baking powder





1/4 t. salt





1/2 t. cinnamon





2 1/2 C. apples, peeled and diced





1 C. pecans





Preheat oven to 350掳F. Grease a 9 x 13-inch baking pan.





In a large bowl, beat the eggs and sugar until smooth and fluffy; add vanilla.





In a separate bowl, mix flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon; add to sugar mixture. Fold in apples and nuts. Pour into prepared pan and bake for 30 minutes.





Serves 8 to 12.


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Jamaican Mystery Cake





1/2 C. butter





1 1/4 C. sugar





2 eggs





2 C. flour





2 t. baking powder





1/2 t. salt





1/2 C. milk





3 crushed bananas





3/4 C. toasted walnuts





Prepare 2 9 inch cake pans with butter and then flour. Shake out excess flour.





In your mixing bowl, cream together butter and sugar. Add the eggs and beat until fluffy.





Sift together, flour, baking powder and salt. Add to butter mixture alternately with the milk. Blend in bananas. Divide batter between the two pans.





Bake at 350掳F. for 1 hour. Take the cakes out of the pans and cool on a rack.





Frosting:





1 C. butter





1 C. sugar





3 eggs





2 t. instant coffee





2 C. confectionary sugar





In your mixer bowl, beat sugar and butter together until very fluffy and sugar is dissolved. Add eggs, 1 at a time and the instant coffee. Add confectionary sugar and beat well. If frosting needs to be a little thinner, add milk.





Before frosting cakes, sprinkle the tops with Grand Marnier.





Note: You can also use toasted walnuts or toasted coconut on the sides of this cake right after frosting. You can also put a layer of cut bananas between the layers, on top of the frosting before adding cake layer.


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or this frosting,





Pecan Praline Topping





1/4 C. butter


1/2 C. firmly packed dark brown sugar


5 T. milk


2 C. powdered sugar


1 t. vanilla


1/2 C. toasted pecan halves, coarsely broken





Bring butter and sugar to a boil in small saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring, 1 min or until slightly thickened. Let cool 10 min. Beat in milk, powdered sugar and vanilla. Stir in nuts.
Bacardi Rum Cake....google it..its the best and very simple, uses a cake mix and pudding and rum;









Buy one it's easier.