Homemade Birthday Cake

Method

• step 1

  Sift the flour and baking powder.Three times.

• step 2

  Melt the butter in a small pan.Let cool.

• step 3

  Separate the egg whites and yolks . Next beat egg white until they become white and frothy.

• step 4

  Add sugar little by little and continue beat until sugar dissolves.

• step 5

  Next add the egg yolk and beat about 5 minutes.After that combine flour [baking powder],melted butter and vanilla.Mix well.[using a rubber spatula]

• step 6

  Pour sponge cake batter in 9x 9 inch baking pan that have been greased with butter and floured.

• step 7

  Pre heat oven to 180 c degrees and bake the cake for 25 minutes.

• step 8

  The cake is ready you can lightly press on it with your finger and if it is bouncy it is ready.

• step 9

  Remove cake from oven and let cool ,before decorating it.When the cake cool spread butter icing on to the top of cake .

• step 10

  Now decorate with flowers.I made them gum paste.

• step 11

  This is the cake I made for my daughter's 26th birthday.