Simple, straight forward, plain cake. No nuts, no chocolate, nothing. Plain, plain, plain.
For flavour, you can add whatever essence you want. You don’t have to use vanilla. You can just a teaspoon of orange juice instead (then you will have an orange flavoured cake), coffee (coffee flavoured cake), or even simple rose water. I should actually try kewra one day …
On the weekend, I made a plain cake for my family and I didn’t have any vanilla essence left. I have some other funky flavours I purchased, but didn’t feel like using them, so I just put a teaspoon of rose water instead. Turned out great!