A really simple, yet extremely effective personal cake recipe (with no butter) is as follows:

X eggs
X ounces of flour (any kind, it doesn't seem to matter)
X ouces of sugar
any toppings/fillings you desire, from jelly to ice cream to chocolate sauce to strawberrys with cream

(X varies with how much cake you want to make, X=6 would be enough to feed 5 people)

Simply seperate the egg whites and yolks into two seperate bowls, mix the sugar into the yolk thoroughly, then mix in the flour.
With that whip up the whites until they're almost solid, then add the whites to the previous mixture and mix gently (you don't want to release the air stored in the whites) until the mix is uniform in smoothness.
Then pour into cake form and cook at 175 degrees for 30 minutes.
Then add whatever toppings you desire.
The resultant cake has a very satisfying spongy texture without the slimy texture of butter, IMO it tastes much better than the standard-fare cake, I thoroughly recommend it to ammeteur cooks across the forum.

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