VANILLA DREAM CAKE and a little quilting and sewing

                                                   the novice chef vanilla-dream-cake

Vanilla Dream Cake

bake at 350 degrees for about 25-30 minutes, but test by using the toothpick or a cake tester

2 1/4 cups all purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups water
2 cups sugar
6 TBSP of butter
2 TBSP of vegetable oil
1 TBSP of vanilla extract
1 vanilla bean, scraped
2 large eggs

In a bowl add the dry ingredients and whisk them together and set aside. 
In a medium saucepan add the water and the sugar.   Bring this mixture to a simmer and stir until the sugar is dissolved.  This will take about 1 minute.  Remove from the heat and add the butter  (I cut the butter in slices and stir in the sugar mixture until melted.

Let this cool for awhile about 5 minutes ( oh it may of been a little longer)  away from heat source then add the oil, vanilla extract and the scrapping of the vanilla bean.  Quickly beat in the eggs (do this fast so that you don’t cook the eggs) I used a small bowl and cracked the eggs and added to the mixture. I used my hand mixer to mix the ingredients. 
Then whisk in the dry ingredients. (I used my hand mixer).  The batter is thin.   Divide the batter between 2 greased and floured 8 inch cake pans.   Bake for about 25-30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center of cake comes out clean.   Cool in the pans then when cool to the touch remove each cake and frost 

Frosting:
1 cup of room temperature butter  (2 sticks)
3 cups of powered sugar
1 TBSP of vanilla extract
and up to 3 TBSP of milk adding a little at a time 


Best served at room temperature

I’ve been doing a little quilting and sewing this winter…………….