Picture Perfect Cakes Every Single Time

I’m going to show you just how easy it is to learn how to bake a cake from scratch. The process gets easier each time and becomes almost an addiction.

The complete recipe is just below the video. I’ve tried to make this easy to follow.

Who Am I?

Great question.

My name is Brenda and I’ve had a baking passion for over 20 years (retired Grandmother of 3). Over the years I’ve amassed a large recipe collection, however; still feel that same great sense of accomplishment when I bake from scratch, unfortunately it’s an art form many people pass over.

To begin you want your pans prepared. Grease and flour the pans. I prefer to make a 2 layer cakes made with 2 x 9″ round pans. Let me use a recipe I really like. Most of my family enjoys vanilla cake but some members aren’t big on vanilla so here is a banana cake recipe. You can also make this recipe without the bananas. You just want to make sure you have all your ingredients before you start. Take inventory and read the ingredients.

Read your recipe through because once in a while I will notice that they ask for something that isn’t on the ingredients list. Then you have to substitute or make a quick run to the store. Let’s get right into baking our cake from scratch! We’re going to make a lovely banana cake recipe (or plain if you don’t like bananas). Our recipe starts with creaming the shortening and sugar together.

It calls for:

• 3/4 cup shortening and
• 1 and 1/2 cups sugar
• Shortening should be soft (you can use butter or margarine, a stick of margarine is 1/2 cup so you would use 1 and 1/2 sticks)

*Mix the sugar with it on low speed with an electric hand mixer.

A short video clip to help explain…

Continuing with our discussion about how to bake a cake from scratch we add:

• 1 cup (about 3 bananas) of mashed bananas to the shortening mix, then
• add 1/2 cup milk
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon of vanilla

Mix these all together with your electric mixer on medium speed until everything is mixed and creamy. I will then just add the 2 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon of baking soda, and 1 teaspoon of baking powder plus 1/4 teaspoon of salt.

I add one on top of the other and then just mix it all in at one time. Start the electric mixer on slow and gradually get it to high as it mixes.

When you have a smooth mix you are ready to pour it into the prepared pans. Pour some into each pan and get them where they are almost equal. Now I will take and just give each pan two hard taps on the counter to remove air bubbles. Just grab the top with both hands for this. At this point they are ready to bake. Bake the cake at 350 degrees for about 25 minutes a put a knife in the center. If the knife comes out clean the cake should be done.

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As for this recipe, all you need to do now is add a nice butter cream frosting and have a delicious cake that you can decorate.

How To Bake A Cake From Scratch