welsh dragon
Guru
The other day I came across a very odd cake recipe. As the thread name implies it is for a magic custard cake.
in short, all the Ingredients are mixed together into a batter, placed in a baking tin and baked for about 60 70 minutes. When the cake comes out of the oven, it has separated into three seperate layers. A base, the custard middle, and sponge top.
How does it happen? How does it work? I have no idea, but it does, and works very well. I decided to make this magic cake myself before starting a thread about it, after all there I felt there was no point in just giving the recipe out if it doesn't actually work.
The recipe is as follows:
pre heat oven tp 325 or 170 deg. line an 8 inch baking tin.
Ingredients
4 eggs at room temperature
1tsp vanilla essence
150 grams of sugar
125 grams of butter (must be soft)
115 grams of all, purpose flour (plain)
500 ml or 2 cups of milk. (Must be warm)
Icing sugar for dusting.
Method.
Separate the 4 eggs.
Beat the egg whites until stiff, put to one side.
In a bowl mix the egg yolks, sugar and vanilla essence until it is light in colour. Add the soft butter and mix thoroughly.
Add and incorporate all of the flour.
Add the milk bit by bit until a smooth batter is formed.
add the egg whites a little at a time. I used a balloon whisk as it is quite difficult to fold the egg whites into a much thinner batter.
When all of the egg whites have been mixed into the batter, pour into your baking tin. Place in the middle of the oven for between 50 to 70 minutes. The cake should be a light golden colour and be firm to the touch.
Leave the cake to one side until it is completely cold. Dust the top with icing sugar.
Below are a couple of photos of the one I baked. You can clearly see that there are in fact 3 layers to the cake. MAGIC. As you can see Mr WD decided to take his life in his hands and try the cake. What a hero. He tells me between mouthfuls, that it is delicious.
This first pictutre is the cake as soon as it was taken out of the oven.
As you can see, there are 3 layers.
in short, all the Ingredients are mixed together into a batter, placed in a baking tin and baked for about 60 70 minutes. When the cake comes out of the oven, it has separated into three seperate layers. A base, the custard middle, and sponge top.
How does it happen? How does it work? I have no idea, but it does, and works very well. I decided to make this magic cake myself before starting a thread about it, after all there I felt there was no point in just giving the recipe out if it doesn't actually work.
The recipe is as follows:
pre heat oven tp 325 or 170 deg. line an 8 inch baking tin.
Ingredients
4 eggs at room temperature
1tsp vanilla essence
150 grams of sugar
125 grams of butter (must be soft)
115 grams of all, purpose flour (plain)
500 ml or 2 cups of milk. (Must be warm)
Icing sugar for dusting.
Method.
Separate the 4 eggs.
Beat the egg whites until stiff, put to one side.
In a bowl mix the egg yolks, sugar and vanilla essence until it is light in colour. Add the soft butter and mix thoroughly.
Add and incorporate all of the flour.
Add the milk bit by bit until a smooth batter is formed.
add the egg whites a little at a time. I used a balloon whisk as it is quite difficult to fold the egg whites into a much thinner batter.
When all of the egg whites have been mixed into the batter, pour into your baking tin. Place in the middle of the oven for between 50 to 70 minutes. The cake should be a light golden colour and be firm to the touch.
Leave the cake to one side until it is completely cold. Dust the top with icing sugar.
Below are a couple of photos of the one I baked. You can clearly see that there are in fact 3 layers to the cake. MAGIC. As you can see Mr WD decided to take his life in his hands and try the cake. What a hero. He tells me between mouthfuls, that it is delicious.
This first pictutre is the cake as soon as it was taken out of the oven.
As you can see, there are 3 layers.
