Cakes

White cake layers

From
Stella
Oven
200 °C200 °C (400 °F)

Ingredients

  • 300 g butter, softened11 oz butter, softened
  • 300 g sugar (300 g, the same as the butter)11 oz sugar (300 g, the same as the butter)
  • 300 g plain flour (300 g, the same as the butter)11 oz plain flour (300 g, the same as the butter)
  • 6 eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla essence
  • 3 tsp baking powder

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 200°C and grease two round tins.Heat the oven to 400 °F and grease two round tins.
  2. Cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs one at a time, then the vanilla. Mix the flour and baking powder and stir them in.
  3. Divide the batter between two round 20–24 cm tins and bake on the second-lowest shelf at 200°C for about 25 minutes.Divide the batter between two round 8–9 in tins and bake on the second-lowest shelf at 400 °F for about 25 minutes.
  4. Let the layers cool.
  5. Sandwich the layers together with jam.

As she wrote it

Her page in the recipe book
Hvítur botn
(Stella)
300gr. smjör + sykur + hveiti 6egg — 2tsk. vanilludr. 3tsk lyftid.
2 Ø 20-24cm form, næst neðsta Rim. 200°c, ca. 25min. Sett saman með sultu.