Bake at free time | Butter cake and butter cookies for holiday Teatime | 5% for SL Charity

When it comes to a holiday, we have plenty of free time. And I like to try out recipes and make sweets or snacks for family members. So I decided to make a little butter cake for four of us and some cookies.

Butter Cake

100g butter

100g powdered sugar

100g flour

2 eggs

1/2tsp baking powder

1/2tsp vanilla extract

6 inch pan

Chocolate chips (optional)

Most of you may know butter cake recipe. Anyway I’ll share it with you. Let butter come to room temperature before start mixing it. But don’t let it melt away. If eggs were sitting in the fridge let it cool to room temperature also.

First beat the butter about 3,4 minutes to make it a cream and then add powdered sugar and beat well. Sugar should be dissolved and mixture will look like a cream. Must we use powdered sugar? No. We can use sugar as it is. What I do is get the sugar out of the packet and powder it using the grinder and use it. Because this help sugar to dissolve fast in the mixture. Otherwise we will have to beat it more.

There are two ways of mixing eggs into the mixture. First one, I call it lazy method. Add eggs into the butter and sugar mixture one at time and mix well. Other method is sponge method. Separate egg white and yolk. And then beat egg whites until it becomes a cloud and beat egg yolk into a cream. If we use this method, we need to use the beater to make eggs cloud from whites before we beat butter and sugar. Because beater need to be clean and dry to get a egg cloud. Then mix whites and yolk separately and mix with a spatula.

Then add vanilla and flour which is combined with baking powder and shifted. And mix the batter. Put the batter into the greased pan. some times I add some chips or cashew nuts on top of it to make a little change. Bake 35-45minutes in 170 0C. time can be vary according to the oven.

Butter cookies

200g butter

80g sugar

1 small egg white

240g flour

1/2tsp vanilla

Pinch of salt

Red coloring (optional)

Cocoa powder (optional)

Beat butter(Room temperature) and the add sugar and beat again. Then add egg white and mix again. After that add vanilla extract, salt to the mixture. add flour and mix using a spatula.

I have separated this batter into two portions and then used one as it is. For the other one added 1/2tbsp of cocoa powder and 2,3 drops of red coloring.

I used 1M nozzle to pipe the cookies onto the tray.
Bake them about 20min in 170 0C. it may be differ in your oven.