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45Total Time
15Prep Time
30Bake Time
12Serves
Easy

Number Cake

9 Reviews

About our number cake recipe

What better way to celebrate a special birthday or anniversary with a number cake? You can tweak this simple vanilla cake recipe by adding different flavourings if you prefer. Decorate with a selection of your favourite sweets, biscuits or even flowers to add that personal touch.

This recipe is for a number 1 cake, however, if you are using a different number, follow our simple guide to calculate how much cake mixture you will need to make.

Head over to our birthday collection for more birthday cake recipe ideas

45Total Time
15Prep Time
30Bake Time
12Serves
Easy

Method

  1. Step 1:

    Preheat the oven to 170°C (150­°C fan, gas mark 3) Grease and line your tin with non-stick baking paper. 

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  2. Step 2:

    In a large bowl cream together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy.

  3. Step 3:

    Add in the eggs one by one, mixing with each addition. You may want to add a tablespoon of the flour with each egg to keep the mixture smooth. 

  4. Step 4:

    Mix in the flour, baking powder and vanilla extract and continue to beat until the mixture is a smooth dropping consistency. 

  5. Step 5:

    Pour the mixture into the cake tin and bake for 30-35 minutes until baked throughout, golden and springy to touch.

  6. Step 6:

    Allow the cake to cool in the tin for 5 minutes before turning out on to a wire cooling rack. 

  7. Step 7:

    To make the buttercream, beat together the butter, icing sugar and vanilla extract until light and fluffy. The longer that you beat the buttercream for the lighter and fluffier it will be.

  8. Step 8:

    Fill a piping bag fitted with a circular nozzle with buttercream and pipe blobs of buttercream all over the cake.  

  9. Step 9:

    Slice strawberries and position them along with the raspberries, macaroons and crushed meringues on to the cake. Finish with a flower. 

Ingredients

  • For the Cake

    • 350g Allinson's Self Raising Flour
    • 2 tsp Baking powder
    • 6 Free range large egg(s)
    • 350g Billington's Unrefined Golden Caster Sugar
    • 350g Unsalted butter (softened)
    • 1 tsp Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract
  • For the Buttercream

    • 600g Silver Spoon Icing Sugar
    • 300g Unsalted butter (softened)
    • 1 tsp Nielsen-Massey Vanilla Extract
  • For the Decoration

    • 6 Macaroons
    • 200g Strawberries (washed & hulled)
    • 200g Raspberries
    • 6 Mini meringues (white)
    • A bunch Flowers

Utensils

  • Number 1 tin
  • Piping bag
  • Nozzle

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