Larry's Kitchen
🍳 Simple Cake
🦁 Why Larry Likes This One
Larry loves how it's soft and spongy!
Serves
8
Prep
20 min
Cook
25 min
Level
⭐⭐ Getting Confident
⚠️ Allergen Information
🌾Gluten (Cereals)🥚Eggs🥛Milk
Always check ingredient labels every time you cook. Ingredients can change. If your child has a diagnosed food allergy, follow their healthcare team's advice.
🥕 Ingredients
- •200 g plain flour
- •200 g butter
- •200 g caster sugar
- •4 eggs
- •1 tsp vanilla extract
- •2 tsp baking powder
- •2 tbsp milk
🔧 Equipment
cake tinsmixing bowlwhiskspatula
📝 Method
🔥 Oven/Cooking temperature: 180°C / Gas 4
- 1Adult: preheat the oven to 180°C / Gas 4.
- 2Grease and line two cake tins.
- 3Cream the butter and sugar until fluffy.
- 4Beat in the eggs one at a time, then the vanilla.
- 5Fold in the flour and baking powder.
- 6Add the milk.
- 7Divide between the tins.
- 8Adult: bake for 25 minutes until golden and springy.
- 9Cool completely before filling.
🦁 My Jobs
- ✓ Cream butter and sugar
- ✓ Crack eggs
- ✓ Fold in flour
- ✓ Divide into tins
👨👩👧 Grown-Up Jobs
- ⚠️ Use the oven
- ⚠️ Handle hot cake tins
- ⚠️ Hot cakes can burn
⚠️ Food Safety
- • Adult must operate the oven
- • Tins will be very hot — use oven gloves
- • Don't open the oven door too early — cake can sink
🧩 Try It Your Way
Try lemon, chocolate or coffee flavour instead of vanilla.
