Basic cake

Hey ya'all!!!
Those of you who have access to Hulu, can watch "Paula's Home Cooking". She makes lots and lots of delicious things, from luxurious apple pie, to simple butter cookies. The only problem i find with that is that... she sometimes uses way too many ready made ingredients (like pie crusts) that are not available all over the world. And that makes you feel frustrated...
Anyhows...
I love cooking... but even more, baking. When you're in the kitchen and your cake starts getting a shape, the smell of vanilla, chocolate, strawberries or whatever it is in that particular desert, fills the house. And there is no other AirWick trick that could make any house smell nicer (even though wherever i have room refreshers, i always use AirWick... to me, they are the best!!!)
So, i have a basic cake recipe that i love to use. It is very easy and quick to make and can be used as chocolate cake, pineapple cake or anything-else-you-have-in-mind-cake (i even tried it for muffin once, and it turned out to be... GOOD!!!).
Since i travel from time to time, i cannot carry my recipe book with me everywhere (even though i would love to!!! but since check in luggage is so limited, or inexistent sometimes... oh well...) i thought i would upload it on my blog. Share it with the whole world and have it handy whenever i need it :)
So, the name of this dough in my book is "Water cake".

IMPORTANT NOTE: the following recipe is for one person portion!!! So a real cake dough would need 4 of these (ex: 4 eggs, 250g sugar, ....) (will make a26 cm diameter cake)


The list of ingredients is as follows:
1 egg
50 g sugar
40 g flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 table spoon ice cold water
How to...:
Separate the egg white from the yolk. Beat the egg white. Then beat the yolk with the sugar (TIP: you can use the same blades in case you are working with an electric mixer...) until slightly changes color. Add the water and incorporate it. Add flour with baking powder, and as needed add the beaten egg white, to keep the mixture slightly liquidish. Then, carefully, add the leftover of beaten egg whites.
And there you go, it's ready!!!
Now you can pour it in a cake-pan an bake it on 150-ish for about 15 minutes, i think, but i never measured, honestly... basically, when you start smelling it in the kitchen, it is about to get right. Before taking it out however, do the toothpick test ;)

Well, enjoy! I know i surely will :D