Busy Day Cake with summer|autumn berries

This recipe comes from the Better Homes and Gardens “New Family Coookbook”. Ive been making this recipe for about 17 years since I got my first copy of the book. Its very quick and easy and you can really play around with the recipe. Here we covered it in raspberries we crushed with a spoon , added a sprinkle of sugar and left for a while. We’ve also used strawberries , logan berries and blackberries  with the cake. I think any soft fruit will be great with it or plums, pears ,rhubarb or apples lightly stewed. Kids  love to make it as its so simple. Bella (12) made the one in the photo.

Busy Day Cake

1 1/3 cups flour

2/3 sugar

2 tsp baking pwder

2/3 cup milk

1/4 cup butter ,margarineor vegetable oil

1 egg

1 tsp vanilla

mix up everything together until smooth pour into a greased  8 or 9 inch round cake pan

bake at 180 degrees for 25 -30 mins

You dont have to pair it with berries. Sometimes I put lemon zest in the batter and then put a lemon drizzle on the finished cake.  Another idea is to add chocolate chips to the batter and then  drizzle the cake with melted chocolate. You could also just ice the cake with any butter icing.