HOW TO BAKE CAKE

Cake is a tasty, sweet and simple snack, it is used to celebrate birthday, wedding, anniversary, other sweet memorable times and can just be kept in the fridge for personal consumption. 

The process for baking cakes requires carefulness and strict adherence to instructions for perfect results. 

INGREDIENTS 

The ingredients listed below will be used to bake cake in a 4 inches deep cake pan.
Flour -------------------- 6 cups 
Butter ------------------- 500g/ 2 sachets 
Sugar  ------------------- 4 cups
Eggs --------------------- 10 pieces
Baking powder --------- 2 tablespoons 
Nutmeg ------------------ 2 teaspoons 
Brandy ------------------- half cup 
Salt ----------------------- a pinch 
Vanilla flavor extract --- 3 tablespoons 
Milk (optional and to taste)
Dried fruits (optional) 
Browning (optional) 

TOOLS 
Wooden spoon 
Clean bowls 
Egg whisk
Measuring cups and spoons 
Sieve or sifter 
Wooden turner
Cake pan
Oven (electric, local or stove)

PROCEDURES 

1. Grease your cake pan, by rubbing butter or groundnut oil inside the pan, ensure it touches the corners of the pan and put some flour into the greased pan and ensure it touches every corner of the pan, then pour out the remaining flour. This process is to prevent the cake from sticking to the pan.
   
2. In a clean bowl, sieve the flour, baking powder, grounded nutmeg, salt and powder milk (if that is what you are using), then mix it. Also whisk your eggs in another clean bowl and set aside.
   
3. In a clean bowl, put butter and sugar, then cream anti clockwise with a wooden turner, until it becomes plain, soft and fluffy and the sugar must have melted.
   
4. When you are done creaming, turn on your oven to preheat.
5. Pour the whisked eggs, dry gin, pre-soaked dry friuts,
   
   and flavors into the creamed butter and mix it. Step 2 above should be shared into three portions and added one at a time into the creamed butter and whisked eggs, then mix properly with a wooden spoon from bottom to top. Repeat the process on the remaining portions until the ingredients are well mixed. Note that the dried fruits should be pre-soaked with brandy for 2 days before use and for 1 month before use when baking wedding cakes. 
6. Now your cake batter is ready to go into the pan, pour the batter into the greased cake pan, gently lift up the cake pan and drop for about two to three times to enable the batter level out .
7. Transfer the cake to the pre-heated oven and place it in between the top and bottom of the ovens. 
8. Bake for at least 1hour 30mins or at most 2 hrs before attempting to open the oven at all. Keep an eye on the cake and know when it has fully risen before opening it. 
   
9. After 2hrs when you are sure it is no longer rising, check the cake by inserting a clean knife at the middle of the cake, if it comes out with smear of batter that means it is not ready yet but if it comes out clean with oily smear on it, then the cake is ready.
   
   
   
10. Bring it out from the oven and place on a tray to cool out. Woow..........Your cake is ready.

Simple and straight forward. 

Try it out. 

Don't hesitate to ask questions via the comment box and send in pictures of your work.