Classic Yellow Cake with Mango Glaze

This was the cake I baked for HD’s birthday last year. And in another two months, it will be his birthday again… hehe… I don’t know why this poor thing waited and waited and waited… but finally it is here! 🙂

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Actually, there is no point in baking a cake on his birthday. He will still complain that nobody bakes anything for him and doesn’t remember his special days. Darn, right! I tell him that it is just that he is growing old and he doesn’t remember what all is being done for him. 😉 I am really surprised that just another week and InShaAllah ,we will move into our thirteenth year of life together and I have not planned anything yet! Yikes… this is so unusual of me! Normally, the cake to be baked is planned months in advance and execution starts from a week, so I should have been ready by now, but alas, that’s not the case. I had so many ideas buzzing in my head, however they all seem to have sunk somewhere. Especially being on a vegan diet means I cannot use butter and eggs, and not using them does not justify a celebration cake! 😉 So I am still wondering what to bake… Cooking is out of question as it will be our normal meals and the celebration we have is only in the form of cakes, so I need to be prepared at least to do something… I am feeling like a bad wife now. 😉

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Classic Yellow Cake with Mango Glaze

Course Cakes

Cuisine American

Prep Time 10 minutes minutes

Cook Time 45 minutes minutes

Total Time 55 minutes minutes

Servings 6

Author Rafeeda

Ingredients

• 120 gm butter softened
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 2 large eggs
• 2 large egg yolks
• 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
• 1 1/2 cup all purpose flour
• 1 1/2 tsp baking powder
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 cup buttermilk
• For mango glaze:
• 1 small mango pulped
• Juice from 1/2 orange
• 2 tbsp sugar
• 20 gm butter

Instructions

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees. Grease and flour a fluted pan or any 8 inch pan.
• Sift the dry ingredients together and set aside.
• Beat the butter and sugar using a hand mixer till light and fluffy.
• Add one egg at a time and beat after each addition till combined.
• Add in the egg yolks one at a time and beat till combined. Add in the vanilla.
• Now reduce the speed of the mixer and add the dry ingredients and buttermilk alternatively, ie. add 1/3 of the flour and beat, then add half the buttermilk and beat, add another 1/3 of the flour, then buttermilk and finally the flour, beating just to combine. Do not overbeat!
• Transfer the batter to the pan and bake for 30 minutes or till a skewer comes out clean.
• Cool in pan for 10 minutes, then flip onto the cooling rack.
• For making the glaze, melt the butter in the microwave. Combine all other ingredients and whisk well.
• Keep the cooled cake on a plate and pour the glaze all over. Slice and enjoy!