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Bread flour about 2 cups. It depends on your need. Bread flour will give a more solid and thicker texture. If you want a soft texture, choose all purpose flour or special flour for cakes. Sieve the flour. Unsieved flour will cause clumps of flour in the dough. Sugar 110 grams Baking powder 2 tea spoons butter 120 grams (Please refer to my explanation on Sweet Coconut Cake) (some or 2 table spoons) brown sugar to make it brown, instead of pale white colour. Some Vanilla oil/extract, two or three drops. Do not put too much it will make the cake taste strange (Indonesian, bikin eneg) 2 eggs with the white but not the shells. 1 Earl Grey tea sachet. If the tea sachet is a double one, just put one. But if the tea sachet is one, you need two of them. Do not put too much of Earl Grey tea because it will make the cake bitter. I failed once because I put two double sachets of tea. Stir them well. Mix them with an electric mixer is better. Grease the pan. Preheat the oven 170 degree celcius fo...

Use all purpose flour 2 cups, it depends on your need. If you just want to serve 4 - 5 people in one serving, 2 cups are enough. There are several types of flour, flour for making bread, all purpose, pancake, starch, maizena, soba flour, etc. For this cake, I used all purpose flour. It gives a light texture. Sieve the flour, put some sugar, baking powder (2 tea spoonfuls) and brown sugar. If you want it sweet, put more white sugar or brown sugar. I never use grams nor measures because I prefer mild taste. Put half of the coconut powder sachet, if you want thick flavour, finish one sachet. Mix them well. Beat one egg. Mix them. I do not have an electric mixer so I just use a spoon with more minutes and strength to stir them well. Mix them with electric mixer will give a soft texture to the cake. Put some butter/margarine. Butter will give a nice aroma to your cake so pay attention to the type besides the calories. I use Canola butter with half calories. The usual type of butter contain...