VIDEO: Simple cake recipe with few ingredients

Box cake with few ingredients 

What you need: 250g butter or margarine, 5 Eggs, 180-200g sugar (depending on the preferred sweetness), 1 packet of vanilla sugar (if available), 375g flour, 5 level teaspoons of baking powder, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon (as desired).

1. The amount of dough is intended for a loaf pan with a length of 30cm. If you want to use a mold with a side length of 25cm, deduct a fifth for each ingredient (except for the vanilla sugar).
2. Preheat the oven (hot air: approx. 160 degrees, top / bottom heat: 180 degrees). Grease and flour the loaf pan.
3. Stir the butter or margarine at room temperature with the hand mixer until creamy. While you keep stirring, slowly pour in the sugar and vanilla sugar (mixed with cinnamon if you like). Stir in the eggs one at a time on the highest setting until a creamy mixture has formed.
4. Then stir in the flour mixed with baking powder in several portions and fill the dough in the prepared loaf pan. Place these on the wire rack in the oven (lower area).
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5. Cut that cake after 15 minutes of baking time with a knife lengthwise 2 cm deep in the middle. Then bake it for another 40-45 minutes (do a cooking test or keep an eye on the degree of browning).
6. Let the finished cake rest in the mold for about 10 minutes before removing it and placing it on a wire rack to cool. Sprinkle the box cake with powdered sugar as desired (if available).

Variations for the simple cake recipe 

• Of course, you can have others too Baking molds or fill the batter of the cake with a few ingredients into muffin tins.
• In almost every household there are always small residues of baking ingredients left over that can be wonderfully used for the box cake: Refine the basic dough (after stirring in the flour) with a handful of chocolate flakes, grated chocolate, chopped almonds, and raisins Etc. Or stir - together with 1-2 tbsp milk - a small portion of coconut flakes or ground almonds under (approx. 30-40g).
• If the cake is only intended for adults, it will get a particularly fine aroma if you add 1 teaspoon rum or stir in amaretto.
• A leftover, already slightly “wrinkled” apple can also be used for the cake: Peel and quarter the apple and grate it. Fold the wafer-thin slices into the dough.
• For a particularly fluffy (and more “figure-conscious”) dough: replace part of the butter with quark.
• Alternatively, cover the box cake with a delicious, homemade chocolate icing: Melt 200g of dark chocolate pieces, then add 130g of butter by tablespoon and also melt. Remove from the hot plate and let cool while stirring. Put the icing in the refrigerator to get a firmer consistency. Finally, glaze the box cake with it. If you don't chocolate in the house, you can also make a couverture from 250g powdered sugar, 50g butter, 25g cocoa powder and 1-2 tablespoons milk: the butter in one Melt the small saucepan, stir in the cocoa powder, let stand on the stove for 1 minute, then set aside and add the powdered sugar stir in. Heat the mass again while stirring until it is smooth. Finally add the me to get a spreadable glaze.
• In case you prefer a simple one sheet cake If you want to prepare with just a few ingredients, you can stir 200g butter or margarine with 190g sugar and 2 packets of vanilla sugar (if available) and 4 eggs until creamy. Then fold in 400g flour (mixed with 1 packet of baking powder) and spread the dough on a greased baking sheet. With fruit (there are apple wedges, preserved cherries, fresh apricots etc. on), possibly sprinkle with a handful of chopped almonds (or similar) and cook at 160 degrees hot air for approx. Bake for 40 minutes (do a cooking test).