Cakes

[spogmai shaglay]

Plain Sponge Cake

INGREDIENTS:
Refined flour 250 gms

Icing sugar 250 gms

Butter 200 gms

Eggs 4

Vanilla essence ½ tsp

Baking Powder 1 tbsp

METHOD:

Cream butter in a bowl till soft. Sieve icing sugar and add a spoon at a time and mix in to the butter till all the sugar is used up.

Break eggs and separate the yolk and keep aside. Whisk the egg white till it makes a soft peak stage. Add the egg white little at a time into the butter-sugar mixture. Similarly beat egg yolk with vanilla essence in it. Do not too much of egg a time as the mixture will curdle. If the mixture begins to curdle, add little flour till it becomes even. And then continue adding eggs till used up. Sieve refined flour and baking powder thrice. Now add the flour into the mixture a little at a time but cut and fold method.

Grease a baking dish with butter and then dust it with a little flour. Pour in the mixture till the baking dish in ¾ full. Bake in a pre-heated oven (pre-heated for 10 minutes) for about 35 – 40 minutes or till done.

To test the cake whether done, insert a skewer or a clean dry knife in the center of the cake and remove it out. If the knife or skewer comes out clean then the cake it done.

Remove from the oven and leave in the baking dish for a few minutes. Invert it out on a wire rack and allow to cool before you store it in an air-tight container.

[spogmai shaglay]

Egg beaten till soft peak stage..
Cut and fold method..
Batter beginning to curdle...
Plain Sponge Cake..

[Saifullah]

There are many methods, like wat about using melted butter compared to creamed butter??

And whisking the egg whites and yolk separately with the sugar?

Then sieving the flour into that mixture and butter

[Palwasha]

Awesome thread!

[Saifullah]

You said 250 grams of flour and 250 grams of sugar, but 400 grams of butter?? Ive been making a lot of sponge cakes and i would think 400 grams is a bit too much? Or no am i wrong??

[spogmai shaglay]

There are many methods, like wat about using melted butter compared to creamed butter??

And whisking the egg whites and yolk separately with the sugar?

Then sieving the flour into that mixture and butter

there are many more methods.....including the one that you mentioned....and yes the flour with baking powder thrice andthen add it to the mixture....u must be knowingvery well why do we sieve it so much.....
different cakes can be made with differemt methods.....the thread doesnt end here......

only if u had a little patience...

You said 250 grams of flour and 250 grams of sugar, but 400 grams of butter?? Ive been making a lot of sponge cakes and i would think 400 grams is a bit too much? Or no am i wrong??

and it should be 200 gms and 400 gms for 1/2 kg flour and 1/2kg sugar...thanks....since i type it, its a mistake i'll change it.......

i too have been making a lot of sponge cakes from the past 11years.....

i would love your recipes too.......

[Saifullah]

Yea ill be looking forward to ur thread...ill be patient...lol

[spogmai shaglay]

MARBLE CAKE

INGREDIENTS:
Eggs 4 - 5
Butter 300 gm
Sugar 300 gm
Flour 300 gm
Cocoa Pd. 3 tbsp

METHOD:
Crème the softened butter along with two third of sugar using a whisk.
Separate the eggs. Add the egg yolks to the butter/sugar mixture and continue to mix with the whisk until the preparation thickens. Add the sifted flour to avoid lumps. Quickly mix.

Beat the egg whites very firm. Gently add the slightly meringue firm whites to the dough. Divide the dough into 2 even parts. Flavour one half with cocoa powder. Keep the other one plain. Pour the uncoloured dough in a greased and dusted cake mould and cover with chocolate flavoured batter and mix with a fork lightly to get the marble effect when baked.

Bake in hot oven 180°C. Bake 30 minutes for mini marbled cakes and a good 50 minutes for a large marbled cake. When finished, check that the cake is ready by sticking the blade of a stainless knife in it. The cake is baked when the blade comes out dry. Unmould on a cooling rack or on the work surface. Leave to cool before slicing and eating.

[Gulalai]

i tried to make a marble cake once... it didnt look right LOL
but it still tasted great

[spogmai shaglay]

i tried to make a marble cake once... it didnt look right LOL
but it still tasted great

Gulalai... you should just use a fork and try to mix the batter very lightly without touching the base of the baking dish.....

the taste of course in yummy, combination of vanilla and cocoa....

[spogmai shaglay]

PINEAPPLE UPSIDE DOWN CAKE

INGREDIENTS:
Butter 200 gm
Icing sugar 150 gm
Eggs 4
Flour 250 gm
Baking Pd. ½ teaspoon
Pineapple essence 1 teaspoon
Vanilla essence 1 teaspoon
Brown sugar 150 gm
Canned pineapple 5 slices

METHOD:
Take a round cake tin and grease with soft butter and put brown sugar in the bottom. Lay thin pineapple slices over the brown sugar.

In a mixing bowl cream butter and sugar together until the butter becomes fluffy and turns off white in colour and the sugar is completely i dissolved. Add eggs one by one by whisking continuously.

Add the essence and fold in the flour, gently at one go along with the baking powder. Pour the cake mixture over the pineapple slices and tap the mould on the work table on the work table to settle the mixture.

Bake at 230*C for 35 minutes or till done. When baked remove from the oven and cool it. De mould when it’s warm.

[Cookiemonster]

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[JanicePing]

Everytime i try to make cake but i am unsuccessful at that. Thanks for such recipe i will try once more.