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🍰 The Perfect Base Recipe for Cakes and Muffins

605 kcal · 40 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Beat the butter together with the sugar until creamy.
  2. 2. Stir in the vanilla sugar.
  3. 3. Add the eggs one by one and mix them well with the butter mixture.
  4. 4. Mix the flour with the baking powder (a leavening agent that fluffs up the dough).
  5. 5. Take a small part of this flour mixture and stir it into the butter mixture.
  6. 6. Now add a part of the milk.
  7. 7. Add the remaining part of the flour mixture and the milk alternately and stir everything until smooth.
  8. 8. Customize the dough to your liking with ingredients like nuts, cocoa, Nutella, or fruits.
  9. 9. Bake the dough as a cake at 180 degrees convection for about 30 minutes.
  10. 10. Do the toothpick test to see if the cake is done.
  11. 11. Bake muffins for about 10 minutes.
  12. 12. Let the cake cool down completely after baking.
  13. 13. Decorate the cake to your liking with icing, chocolate glaze, or simply with powdered sugar.

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