The traditional birthday cake

Ingredients for 1 servings:

• 500 g wholemeal flour
• 250 g wheat flour type 405
• 150 g sugar
• 1 tbsp vanilla sugar
• 1 ½ tbsp baking powder
• 250 g margarine
• 5 eggs
• 125 ml milk
• 1 organic lemon(s), juice and zest
• 1 package of chocolate flakes, approx. 100 g
• 1 package of mocha beans (chocolate decor), dark chocolate, approx. 50 g

Instructions

Working time approx. 15 minutes; Cooking/baking time approx. 1 hour; Total time approx. 1 hour 15 minutes

Sponge cake, also available as muffins

For the cake batter, thoroughly mix the flour, sugar, vanilla sugar, and baking powder in a bowl to create a more even batter. Then add the margarine, eggs, milk, lemon juice, and zest and use a mixer to mix everything into a thick batter. Caution: Do not add too much milk at once. The batter should be difficult to pull off a spoon. Also, do not overbeat the batter and flour. Finally, carefully fold in the chocolate flakes and mocha beans and pour the batter into a well-greased 26cm springform pan or bundt cake pan. Bake on the middle rack at 200°C (top/bottom heat) or 180°C (fan oven) for approximately 60 to 75 minutes. Note: The batter can also be poured into muffin cups; this will reduce the baking time to 20 to 25 minutes. Blueberries, for example, can be used instead of the chocolate flakes and mocha beans.