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Zhinomikky
An Easy Vanilla Cake Recipe
~2.4 mins read
 

Asimple vanilla cake recipe is a timeless classic to have in your repertoire, whether you're a master baker or just starting out. Everyone needs an easy cake recipe that serves as a versatile base for whatever you want to turn it into; you can keep it simple at the beginning and then work up to more intricate decorations as you get better. This is a cake recipe that works splendidly for birthdays, special occasions, or just plain old afternoon tea. It's the simplest possible combination of eggs, flour, butter and sugar, baked in the oven for 45-50 minutes. You'll know it's done when it's golden on top and a skewer inserted comes out clean.

 

When it's cooled, slather it with buttercream frosting, pile fruit on top of it, or simply dust it with icing sugar, and it'll be delightful any way you slice it. You could even turn it into a Victoria sponge cake by simply cutting it in half when it's cool, adding a layer of jam and putting it back together again – though we do have a very good Victoria sponge recipe you can follow for more specific instructions.

If you're looking for something a little more challenging, we have many cake recipes to try: we recommend moving on to our easy chocolate cake if you're a fan of this cake, or chocolate fairy cakes make a nice treat and are fun for kids to make.

Ingredients

  • 175g (6oz) margarine or softened butter
  • 175g (6oz) caster sugar
  • 3 large eggs
  • 175g (6oz) self-raising flour, sifted
  • 1tsp baking powder
  • 1tsp vanilla extract
  • pinch of salt

    • Method

  • Heat the oven to 180°C (gas mark 4). Lightly grease an 18cm (7in) round cake tin with a little extra butter or margarine and cut a piece of greaseproof paper or non-stick baking parchment to fit the base of the tin.
  • Put all the ingredients into a large mixing bowl and beat with a wooden spoon or a hand-held mixer for 1 minute, or until just combined. It's important not to beat the batter too much - just long enough to make it smooth.
  • Pour or spoon the mixture into the tin, smooth the top and bake on the middle shelf of the oven for about 45-50 minutes. The cake is cooked when it looks well risen and golden; the top should spring back when lightly touched with a fingertip. Another test is to insert a skewer into the centre of the cake - it should come out clean.
  • Let the cake sit in the tin for 5 minutes, then gently run a knife around the edge and turn it out onto a wire rack to cool. Serve dusted with icinIf you fantasise about being a star baker but find the whole process a little intimidating, this is the perfect easy cake for you. It's infinitely variable and incredibly simple to make. Simply place all the ingredients in a bowl and beat until combined. You can mix with a wooden spoon, a hand-held electric mixer or by using the pulse action of a food processor, for varying levels of difficulty.
  • Using margarine rather than butter works really well for this cake and saves you the bother and time of having to soften the butter before you start.
  • Don't be tempted to open the oven before 40 minutes - you'll regret it.
  • Once the cake has cooled, put it in an airtight container and it can be stored for up to 2 days.
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    Zhinomikky
    TINUBU CONDOLES WITH KING SUNNY ADE OVER WIFE'S DEATH
    ~0.6 mins read
    Bola Tinubu, National Leader of All Progressives Congress and previous Lagos State Governor, has commisserated with Juju vocalist, King Sunny Ade, on the passing of his better half, Risikat Adegeye. 

    Naijaloaded announced that the 62-year-old kicked the bucket on Tuesday during a short sickness. 

    Responding, in a sympathy message endorsed by his media helper, Mr Tunde Rahman, on Wednesday, Tinubu communicated pity at the passing of the legislator. 

    "Hon. Adegeye was an unmistakable grassroots government official in Lagos who turned out intensely for her Amuwo-Odofin Constituency. 

    "She was a steady warrior for what she had faith in. 

    "She was an obedient spouse and mother. I grieve with her family, companions and partners. 

    "I supplicate that Almighty God allows the spirit of Hon. Adegeye everlasting rest," he said.
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    Marfav
    5 WAYS TO KNOW THAT A GUY IS REALLY SERIOUS FOR MARRIAGE
    ~3.9 mins read
    About a week ago, a lady approached me and asked me how she would know that a guy is really serious for marriage. She said that a guy is coming for her and she is worried if the guy is serious or one of those hit and run guys.

    So, I told her some things or rather how she will know that a guy is really serious for marriage and not one of those sex predators or time wasters guys.
    Maybe as a lady, you are in this kind of situation. You are in a relationship with a guy but you are not sure if this guy is really serious for marriage or has come to waste your time and drive away potential life partners. This article is for you.

    In this article, what I intend to do is to show you how you can spot a guy that is serious for marriage and wants to walk down the aisle with you. You really need to take this seriously because your time, prime, resources and potential life partners are at stake.
    One wrong guy in a relationship with you will waste your time, resources and drive away or block other guys that really want to settle down with you.

    So, how will you know that guy that's promising you heaven and is serious for marriage?

    1. He will introduce you to important people in his life
    If a guy is serious with you, he will waste no time in introducing you to people that matter to him, his pastor, mentors, family, colleagues, friends etc.
    You have being dating a guy for some time now, say 1 year or 2 years and you don't know who his parents are, you don't know any of his siblings, colleagues or friends, and whenever you bring up the issue, he will change the topic, Aunty be careful, na express you dey go!

    2. He will also to want to meet important people in your life
    A guy that is serious for marriage will not only introduce you to important people in his life but will also try to meet important people in your own life so as to make things official and formal.
    When you are in a relationship with a guy that's hide and seek with you, whenever you bring up the issue of him coming to meet your parents, he divert the conversation or run off, then you should know that he isn't serious and you shouldn't waste your time with a guy that for a year or 2 years he has refused to meet your parents or important people in your life. Don't do that.

    3. He will stay
    For many guys, their number one aim for entering into a relationship is to have sex. Some of them will tell you, "If you love me prove it." Some of them once you tell them that there will be nothing like sex until after marriage, they will zoom off without looking back. Some of them will threaten you that if you don't have sex with them, they will break up with you and all that.
    But when you tell a guy that there will be nothing like sex until after marriage and he stays, he doesn't disturb you about sex, and he doesn't threaten to leave if you should fail to give him sex, that may be a sign that he is serious about getting married to you.
    As a lady, one thing you need to know is that sex doesn't keep a man. If a man doesn't want to stay with you, give him all sex styles in the world, doggy style, hossy style, scorpion style, cat style, etc., he will not stay. A guy that wants you will stay with or without sex.

    4. He will include you in his plans and major decisions
    When a guy begins to include you in plans and major decisions in life, you should know that he is seeing you in his future but when you are with a guy that hides things from you, he never tells you his next move or actions or his whereabouts, he just shows up and disappears anytime he wants, that's guy that is not seeing you in his future.
    A man wants to marry a woman that will be useful in his future, so when a guy includes you in his plans and decisions, you should think that he's considering you useful to his future. We don't go about sharing our plans with anyone that cares to listen but with those we consider important to use. The point is, when a guy includes you in his plans and decisions, he is seeing the future with you.

    5. Subject everything to prayers
    Prayer remains the master key. So, for your time not to be wasted, for you not to chase away potential life partners, for your heart not to be broken, subject everything to God prayers.
    Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:(Matthew 7:7 KJV)
    The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.(Deuteronomy 29:29 KJV)
    You are in a relationship with a guy and you are not sure if this guy is God's will or even serious for marriage talk less of being God's will, you have some prayers to do.

    You shall not miss it in marriage!

    Thanks for reading
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    Victor21
    Top Ten Causes Of Death In Men
    ~0.6 mins read
    Men have shorter life expectancies than women. While we will all die eventually, there are things we can do to live longer and  lives, which improves the overall quality of our lives and our families lives.

    Luckily, because many of these causes can be prevented, men can take steps to avoid them by knowing the symptoms, by having regular checkups by a doctor or health care provider and by taking steps to live a healthier life.

    10 causes of death in men
    1)Heart disease

    2) Cancer

    3)Unintentional injuries

    4)stroke

    5)Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (Lung Diseases)

    6)Diabetes

    7)Influenza and Pneumonia

    8)Suicide

    9)Kidney disease

    10)Alzheimer’s Disease
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    Kweenshantel
    ThESE ARE THE REALITIES OF RETIREMENT
    ~2.0 mins read
    1) You are no longer popular in your office.

    2) Avoid going to your former office without invitation. Where it's absolutely necessary inform an officer of your visit so that you can be received.

    3) Know that not everyone liked you while at work & now have an opportunity to snob you.

    4) Keep in touch with your coursemates as you grow in retirement because some Pharaohs in Egypt may not know your Joseph.

    5) Attend celebration of coursemates. Its always a reunion with lots of fun.

    6) Only a few of the people you assisted (including family members) will come around to see you often.To others you have nothing to offer.

    7)Plan your days & follow your plan. Sometimes when you look at your uniform with all the medals, you have a feeling of emptiness. Get yourself occupied.
    Traveling is great, visit places of interest and enjoy your travels.

    9) Eat right, enjoy your meals but down on excessive consumption of alcohol, sugar, salt, fats and oils.

    10) Do your medical check-up even when you feel healthy.
    *Enjoy your retirement.*

    NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH.

    Build your own house where you will live in your old age.

    Build businesses that will feed you in your old age.

    Create conveniences that will engage you in your old age.

    Build friendship and goodwill that will serve you in your old age.

    Right now, start to be relevant in your mosque or Church and community so you could be reckoned with in your old age.

    Old age could be very lonely and agonising for men who did not plan for it.

    May you not become a liability on your children in your old age.

    May your children not wish you an early death when they can't manage you again in your old age.

    An old age without penny in your pocket is a slow, agonising death sentence!

    Be warned now
    There are three categories of people you cannot do without as we are growing older, your family, people in your place of worship and childhood friends, who include your Old School Mates.

    Friends, take it or live it, at 60 and above, Loneliness kills because the children you are working hard for now will go their way to raise their own immediate families and pursue their own destinies, just as we did now. At that time it's these People in these 
    3- Categories that take away Loneliness and Keep Your Company.

    *At 50 years and above, You have 10 to 15 Years of Active Working Life.*
    Respect Friendship and Value Relationship.
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    Gale2626
    N-EXIT Training Commences By October
    ~1.5 mins read
    Training of exited N Power volunteers begins October – FG

    September 22, 2021 By The Nation Newspaper 

    The Federal government has disclosed its plan to commence training for the exited batches A and B of the NPower scheme. The Federal Government also said out of 500,000 exited volunteers, 390,000 of them have been successfully accommodated in the NEXIT.

    NEXIT is an exit package for all the beneficiaries of the N Power in partnership with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to enable them to benefit from the CBN empowerment options.

    According to the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, the training would commence next month.

    She disclosed these on Wednesday while speaking at the Chatham House on social development and humanitarian challenges facing Nigeria, and the government’s responses to the ongoing humanitarian and food crises in the country.

    On the plan of the Federal Government for the exited N Power volunteers, she said:

    “The exited volunteers have been put on a programme with the Central Bank of Nigeria in partnership with the ministry to prepare an exit package for them and we have gone very far in this regard.

    “People have registered onto different skills that they want to be supported and we are at the point of training these exited NPower beneficiaries on to the skills that they have choosen for themselves.

    “By next month, we should start the process of training them on their preferred skills.

    “We are working with the CBN to support them with soft loans and out of the 500,000 exited N Power beneficiaries, about 390,000 of them have successfully been accommodated into the NEXIT programme while about 109,000 are already on their way to entrepreneurship on their own even before we started the NEXIT.”

    She also said the beneficiaries would be given a starter pack at the end of the training.

    “At the end of this training, we are going to provide them with starter packs and we are also going to establish their business module for them".
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