recipes

Ingredients:
3 cups (420 g) flour
1½ tsp (7.5 ml) bicarbonate of soda
1½ tsp (7.5 ml) baking powder
¾ tsp (3.75 ml) salt
170 g butter, at room temperature
1½ cups (300 g) sugar
3 eggs
1 Tbsp (15 ml) vanilla essence
1½ cups (375 ml) buttermilk)

Method:
Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease a large 24 x 32 cm sheet cake pan.

Into a medium bowl, sift the flour, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder and salt. Set aside.

In the bowl of an electric mixer, with the paddle attachment, beat butter and sugar until creamy. Beat in the eggs one at a time. Mix in the vanilla essence. Add the flour mixture and buttermilk alternately to the butter mixture, ending with the flour. Beat on high speed for 1 minute.

Pour the batter into the prepared pan, and then bake for 50-60 minutes. Rest for 10 minutes before turning out.