Basic Vanilla Cake
Ingredients
  • 80g rapadura sugar
  • 130g room temperature butter
  • 2 eggs
  • 1tsp vanilla bean paste or extract
  • 2tsp baking powder
  • 1/2tsp bicarbonate soda
  • 250g white spelt flour
  • 150g milk of choiceI use coconut
For The Icing
  • 250g of cream cheese
  • 25g milk
  • 50g maple syrup
  • 1tsp vanilla bean paste
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Line a loaf tin with baking paper (can also use round cake tin).
  2. Cream butter and sugar with electric beaters until a light golden colour.
  3. Add eggs one and a time while still mixing until a lovely smooth texture.
  4. Add all other ingredients and mix on medium speed until well combined.
  5. Pour into tin and cook in oven for 30 minutes, or until a skewer inserted comes out clean.
To Create The Icing:
  1. We are not a big icing family but sometimes the occasion calls for it. Combine in blender until it forms an icing texture. Then spread over cold cake and enjoy!
Using a Thermomix
  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Line a loaf tin with baking paper (can also use round cake tin).
  2. Add sugar to the bowl and mill 10 seconds speed 9. Add butter and mix speed 4, 1 minute.
  3. Add eggs one at a time while mixing at speed 4 until well combined.
  4. Add the other ingredients and mix on speed 4 for thirty seconds.
  5. Scrape down sides of bowl and repeat if needed.
  6. Pour into tin and cook in oven for 30 minutes, or until skewer inserted comes out clean.
Recipe Notes

A few notes on the cake:

The step with milling the sugar gives a softer texture, but it’s not totally necessary.

If you wanted to make it dairy free, then you could replace the butter with macadamia oil.

Other icing ideas are:

Sprinkle the top of the cake with extra rapadura sugar before baking – it will cause a beautiful caramel effect on top of the cake.

Grind down 50g rapadura sugar and blend with 50g butter and 1 tbls cacao for chocolate icing

Cover with whipped cream and grate some dark chocolate on the top

Enjoy, and let me know how you get on!