How to extend the storage life of your cake + recipe boerencake.

Salaam alaykum,

I found a great tip to extend the storage life of your cake. This tip is especially helpful for me because my husband doesn’t eat sweet things at all! And I LOVE sweet things! Can you imagine that you want to bake a cake, but you’re the only one who has to eat it? A whole cake, just for yourself? And people usually make cake for a special occasion and on a special occasion there are a lot of people, and we are just with the two of us! So I usually have to throw the remains away after 3 days! And we Muslims all know that we can’t waste food or drinks!

Well, to extend the storage life of your cake, simply store it with half an apple! This also works with a couple of sugar cubes.

This recipe is for a traditional and delicious Dutch cake called Boerencake, roughly translated into Farmerscake.




Ingredients

200g Soft butter
250g Self raising flour
200g Sugar
3 eggs
50 ml milk
1 Pinch of Salt
7g Vanilla sugar

Preparation

• Reheat the oven to 160 C

• Grease the cake tin and dust it with flour.

• With an electric mixer, stir the butter, sugar, salt and vanilla sugar into a smooth and creamy batter.

• Beat the eggs one by one into the batter and continue mixing for 5 minutes.

• Sift the flour through the batter and pour the milk on top of it.

• Keep mixing until a smooth paste.

• Pour the mixture into the cake tin and en and bake the cake in 75 minutes golden brown.