Hot Milk Cake

Ingredients

• 4 eggs, room temperature
• 1 tbsp vanilla
• 1/2 cup vegetable oil
• 1 1/4 cups sugar
• 2 1/4 cups flour
• 1 tbsp baking powder
• 1 cup milk
• 100 g butter
• A pinch of salt

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C.
2. Heat the milk and butter in a pot over low heat until the milk boils and the butter melts.
3. Mix the flour, salt and baking powder together.
4. Beat the eggs and vanilla until pale, add the sugar and beat until thick, then the oil, then the flour gradually, and finally the hot milk and butter gradually until smooth.
5. Grease and flour the pan, pour in the batter and bake on the middle rack for 35 to 40 minutes without opening the oven. Test with a skewer, let cool, turn out and decorate or serve plain.

Notes

I decorated it with white and dark chocolate, strawberries and a dusting of powdered sugar.