Cake Rusk

Source: khanapakana.com

Makes - 18-20 rusks

Ingredients

• All purpose flour – 1 cup
• Unsalted butter – 125 gm
• Castor sugar – ½ cup
• Eggs -3
• Vanilla essence – 1 tsp
• Baking powder – 1 tsp
• Salt – ¼ tsp
• Few drops of orange or yellow food color (optional)

How to make cake rusk?

• Start by preheating the oven at 180 degrees C.

• Melt butter in a microwave.

• Add sugar and beat them together really well. It should form creamy texture.

• Then break eggs in it and beat until mixture is really smooth and creamy. It may take 2-3 minutes with electric beater.

• Add vanilla essence.

• Mix baking powder and salt into the flour and sift directly into the batter.

• Fold in the batter gently and add food color.

• Mix and pour the batter in the greased cake tin and level it with knife or spoon.
• Bake in the preheated oven for about 50-55 minutes.

• After 55 minutes, switch off the oven and take the cake out.
• Allow it to cool down a little bit. At the same time make sure your oven’s temperature also gets reduced.

• Then make thin slices out of it.

• Arrange the slices on a baking tray and start your oven at 150 degrees C.

• Place them into the oven and bake for 15-20 minutes on one side.
• Flip and bake again for next 8-10 minutes until they are light brown and crispy.

• Arrange them on a cooling rack and let them cool down completely.

• Serve these delicious cake rusks with a cup of hot ginger tea.