Cake

"It tastes like Holland"

My husband asked me to make cake the other day. Our conversation looked kinda like this:

Him: cake would be nice

Me: what kind of cake?

Him: you know, cake

Me: yah, but like chocolate cake or layer cake or something?

Him: I don't know what else it's called, we just call it cake.

Then I realized he was talking about Dutch cake and sure enough in one of my cookbooks, that's simply what it's called: cake. 

Ingredients

200g butter, room temperature

200g sugar

Insides of one vanilla bean (or 1tsp extract)

Lemon zest

Dash of salt

4 eggs, room temperature

200g flour or cake flour, sifted

Directions

Preheat oven to 320F. Grease and flour a loaf pan and set aside.

Beat butter, sugar, salt, and vanilla until it is light and fluffy. Add eggs one at a time, mixing 2 minutes between each egg. Slowly add the flour and mix until the batter is smooth. Fill the loaf pan with the batter and bake for about 1 ¼ hours until the cake is golden brown and a toothpick comes out clean. Let the cake cool in the pan for a few minutes and then remove to a cooking rack.