"Emergency" cake: This soft vanilla cake comes from without eggs, butter and milk

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This cake proves: Even with an empty fridge you can conjure up a sweet masterpiece. Made quickly, uncomplicated and really tasty.

Do you know that? You feel like cake - or surprisingly, you can find a visit - but the look in the fridge ensures disillusionment: no eggs, no milk, no butter.

Does that mean that you have to do without sweet pastries? Of course not! The emergency cake saves you in exactly these moments. He gets along with simple storage ingredients, is stirred in no time and so soft and juicy that you are guaranteed not only to bake it in "emergencies".

These cakes are also made quickly:

Simple recipe for an emergency cake

Ingredients for a small baking pan (20 x 20 cm):

250 g flour (type 405 or 550)
2.5 tsp baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
200 g of sugar
½ tbsp vanilla extract (Buy here at Amazon*)
60 ml neutral vegetable oil
250 ml of water

This is how it works:

1. Preheat the oven to 175 ° C top/bottom heat. A baking pan (20 x 20 cm,Like this from Amazon*) Line with baking paper.

2. First mix the dry ingredients: Put the flour, baking powder, salt and sugar in a large bowl and stir well with a whisk.

3. Then incorporate the liquid ingredients: add the vanilla extract, oil and half of the water to the flour mixture and stir until there are no lumps. Then add the remaining water and stir into a smooth dough.

4. Put the finished dough in the prepared shape and bake for about 35–40 minutes until the cake is slightly browned and a toothpick comes out clean. Should it become too dark in between, cover the cake with aluminum foil.

5. Let the cake completely cool in the mold before you cut it. Then you can pimp him up at will: for example with powdered sugar, a simple sugar glaze made of lemon juice and water or with melted chocolate.

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