**up: [[! RPAH Diet-friendly recipes|RPAH Diet-Friendly Recipes]]** --- # Vanilla tea cake - Adapted from Rhonda Hetzel’s Cinnamon Tea Cake (*Down to Earth*, 2012, p. 295) ## Ingredients - 1 cup self-raising flour - 1 egg, separated into yolk and egg white - ½ cup sugar - ½ cup milk - 20g nuttelex (or butter/margarine), melted - ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract - extra nuttelex (or butter/marg) for greasing—and/or use baking paper **Topping** - 15g nuttelex (or butter/marg), melted - 1 tablespoon sugar (or a smaller amount of caster sugar) ## Method 1. Pre-heat oven to 180.C 2. Put 20g **nuttelex** (or butter/marg) into a small saucepan on a very low heat, to melt. 3. Grease your baking tin (or line with baking paper).[^1] 4. Separate the **egg white** into a mixing bowl, and the **yolk** into another bowl/cup. 5. Whisk the egg white until stiff, then gently stir in yolk. 6. Gradually add the **sugar** to the egg, mixing as you go. Then stir in the **milk**, **melted nuttelex**, and **vanilla**. 7. Sift flour into the mixing bowl. Stir until combined. 8. Pour cake mix into greased tin and bake for about 20 minutes.[^2] 9. Melt the topping’s nuttelex on a very low heat.[^3] 10. Take cake out of its tin while it’s still hot. Place on a wire rack. While the cake is still warm, spoon the melted nuttelex over the top of it, then sprinkle the sugar. [^1]: I use a square tin for ease of slicing up squares of cake for lunchboxes etc. [^2]: Your time will vary! It may take longer! Or shorter! You can check whether cakes are ready by putting a skewer or clean butter knife in the top; if it comes out clean, the cake is done. [^3]: On my stovetop, the heat of the oven below the hotplates is sufficient, and I don’t need to turn the stove on for this batch of melting, but YMMV.