My basic cake recipe

Firgured I may as well give this its own post since it features in so many others, but none in which it is plain.

This is the easiest, quickest, most mess free cake recipe I have ever found.
You will need (You better appreciate this Adria)
1/2-3/4 cup SR flour
1/2 cup caster sugar
1/4 cup melted butter
1/2 cup milk
1 egg

Then you just put it all in a large-ish bowl (in the order above, but I don't think it really matters) and beat it for a few minutes until its all combined and smooth. I usually put just 1/2 cup of flour in, and then add more if its too runny.

Then bake it at 180 for about 15 minutes (depending on the tin you use..) in a greased and if you wish lined tin until a skewer comes out clean. Take out of tin immediately and cool before icing.

And you can pretty much add anything to it, to make it chocolate just stick with 1/2 cup of flour and add 2 or 3tbsp of cocoa.
Add a tsp of vanilla essence to make it vanilla.
Or just add awesome stuff to it:
Raspberries and white chocolate chips.
Peanut butter.
Apple and cinnamon (and sprinkle the top with brown sugar and cinnamon before baking)

And here it is featured in some of my other posts:
Black forest cake
Alice in Wonderland cake