(cake image without icing)
Cake ingredients:
2/3 cup all purpose flour
or
(2/3 cup corn starch,2/3 cup potato starch)if available
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon guar gum
2 teaspoons baking powder
Pinch of salt
1 tablespoon anise extract
1 egg
3/4 cup milk
2/3 cup sugar
3 tablespoons oil
Icing ingredients:
1/2 stick of butter
3 cups of powdered sugar
1/4 cup milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Directions:
1. Use a mixer to beat butter, powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla extract to make the icing. Cool icing in the refrigerator.
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Spray a baking pan with shortening
3. Sift together sugar, all purpose flour or (corn starch and potato starch)
in mixing bowl. Add in the following ingredients in listed order and mix with a flat, flexible blade : baking soda, guar gum, baking powder, salt, anise extract, egg, milk, sugar and oil.
4. Once the ingredients have been mixed and softened, scrape the mixture into a round baking pan and bake for 25 minutes, until the cake is golden and a toothpick inserted into the cake comes out clean. Let cool in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn out onto a serving plate.
5. Spread icing evenly over cake.
Note:
Replace all purpose flour with corn starch & potato starch to give Gluten-Free Vanilla Cake
About Gaur gam:
Guar Gum is a white to yellowish white powder and is nearly odorless.
The most common used of Guar gum is its use as thickening agent or thickener. The thickening agent provides body, increase stability, and improve suspending action.
Thickening agents are most often as food additives. Thickeners are frequently based on polysaccharides (starches or vegetable gums) or proteins.
