Sempoi Peanut Butterscotch Cake

A great recipe especially for you who love crunchy peanuts :) 

Topping:

125g butter

2 tablespoon brown sugar

2 tablespoon white sugar

2 tablespoon honey

11/2 cups chopped peanuts

Cake

12/3 cups plain flour

1/2 tsp salt

3 tsp baking powder

125g butter

1/2 cup sugar

2 eggs, beaten

1/4 cup milk

1/2 tsp vanilla essence

- lightly grease a square cake tin and line base w baking paper

- to make topping, melt butter + sugars + honey in a saucepan over medium heat, stir in peanuts. once well mixed pour & press into cake tin and let it set for a while.

- meanwhile, preheat oven 180'c.

- to make cake, sift flour w salt & baking powder.

- rub in butter into flour then add sugar & mix.

- make well in center and add in beaten eggs, add milk & vanilla essence & mix well.

- spread cake mixture over peanuts topping.

- bake for 50 minutes or till skewer comes out clean.

- once cooked, take out from oven and turn out immediately onto a rack, remove paper if sticks to topping. 

- press lightly topping onto cake and let it cool. topping will set in position as it cools then cut to serve.

* it may sound kind of complicated hehe but its quite an ok process ... x worries

Happy trying ... :)