Sixty-year-old only child: The system taught me how to become rich

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Making cakes is a fun baking activity, here is a simple recipe and steps for a basic golden cake:

### Material:

- 2 cups flour

- 1½ cup granulated sugar

- 1 tsp baking powder

- ? teaspoon salt

- 1 cup milk

- ½ cup unsalted butter (softened)

- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

- 4 eggs

### Steps:

1. **Preheat the oven**: Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius.

2. **Prepare the cake mold**: Grease the cake mold with a thin layer of butter and sprinkle with a small amount of flour to ensure that the cake does not stick to the mold.

3. **Mix dry ingredients**: In a large bowl, combine flour, granulated sugar, baking powder and salt.

4. **Add wet ingredients**: Gradually add milk, softened butter and vanilla extract. Mix well.

5. **Add eggs**: Add eggs one by one, stirring evenly each time.

6. **Mix well**: Make sure all ingredients are thoroughly mixed to form a smooth batter.

7. **Pour into the mold**: Pour the batter into the prepared cake mold.

8. **Bake**: Place the mold into the preheated oven and bake for about 25-30 minutes, or until the surface of the cake is golden brown. Insert a toothpick into the center and there will be no wet batter when the toothpick comes out.

9. **COOLING**: Remove the cake from the oven, allow it to cool in the mold for a while, then move it to a cooling rack to continue cooling.

10. **Decoration**: After cooling completely, you can decorate according to personal preferences, such as applying buttercream, sprinkling chocolate chips, etc.

This is just a basic cake recipe, you can add other flavorings or change the decoration to suit your personal taste. Happy baking!

The process of making noodles can be simply divided into a few basic steps. Here is a general handmade noodle recipe and production method:

### Material:

- flour

- warm water

- A pinch of salt (optional)

### Steps:

1. **Prepare flour**: Put an appropriate amount of flour in a large bowl. You can choose to use regular flour or mix in some bread flour to make the noodles more elastic.

2. **Gradually add water**: Slowly add warm water to the flour while stirring with your hands or chopsticks until the flour begins to form a dough.

3. **Kneading**: Place the dough on the table or workbench and start kneading. The purpose of kneading is to form gluten and knead until the dough is smooth and elastic.

4. **Rising**: Put the kneaded dough back into the bowl, cover it with a damp cloth or plastic wrap, and let it rise, usually 15-30 minutes.

5. **Rolling**: Roll the risen dough into thin sheets. You can use a rolling pin to ensure that it is rolled into even sheets.

6. **Cut noodles**: Roll the thin slices into dough, then cut them into thin strips with a knife to become noodles.

7. **Cooking noodles**: Put the cut noodles into boiling water and cook. The time depends on the thickness of the noodles and personal taste preference.

8. **Remove**: After cooking, use a strainer to remove the water.

9. **Ingredients and Seasonings**: Combine the cooked noodles with your favorite ingredients and seasonings, such as soy sauce, sesame sauce, sesame oil, etc.

This is just a simple handmade noodle making method, you can adjust the recipe and steps appropriately according to different tastes and personal experience. Hope you can make delicious noodles!