Basic Milk Cake

Directions

1. 1
   Preheat the oven to 180C.
2. 2
   Separate egg yolk from the white.
3. 3
   With an electric mixer, beat the egg yolks with sugar on high speed, until it turns pale.
4. 4
   Mix in the oil, milk and vanilla extract.
5. 5
   Sift in the flour and the backing powder and fold the batter to mix. Don't mix for too long as you may lose the air in your batter.
6. 6
   In a fresh bowl without any trace of water or oil, beat the egg whites with an electric mixer on medium speed until foams formed.
7. 7
   fold-in the beaten egg whites into the cake mixture.
8. 8
   Pour in the 15cm cake tin.
9. 9
   Pour the butter in the 15cm cake tin, and bake for 45 minute or until the toothpick