Cakemommy2012
Posted 15 Mar 2013 , 12:00am
post #1 of 5
So I tried iambaker's white cake recipe last night and I don't know what I did wrong, but was wondering if anyone on here tried it? (I have messaged iambaker and awaiting her reply as well) For me it came out VERY dense. It was a very heavy, dense cake reminding me of a very firm angel food cake. It would be perfect for carving! Here is the recipe for viewing--I'm fairly certain I followed the recipe to the letter----
The Perfect White Cake
Ingredients
- 2 1/4 cups cake flour
- 1 cup milk at room temperature-Skim
- 6 large egg whites at room temperature
- 2 teaspoons almond extract
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 3/4 cups granulated sugar
- 4 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 teaspoon table salt
- 1 1/2 sticks unsalted butter, softened but still cool
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees. Prepare two 8-inch cake pans.
- Make sure milk and eggs are room temperature.
- Pour milk (I used skim) , egg whites, and extracts into medium bowl and mix with fork until blended.
- Mix cake flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in bowl of electric mixer at slow speed. Add butter, cut into cubes and continue beating on low for about 1-2 minutes.
- Add all but 1/2 cup of milk mixture to flour mixture and beat at medium speed for 1 1/2 minutes. Add remaining 1/2 cup of milk mixture and beat for about 1 minute.
- Pour batter evenly between two prepared cake pans.
- Bake until toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, 27 to 30 minutes.
- Allow cake to cool to room temperature.
- Frost cakes with favorite frosting.
- Just barely adapted from epicurious, taken from Cooks Illustrated.
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NJsugarmama
Posted 15 Mar 2013 , 1:09am
post #2 of 5
AEeek. Haven't tried that one, but I've done...and LOVED sweetopolita's fluffy vanilla cake. It's a similar method, I follow it to a T and it never fails.
Sometimes I feel like my cake turns out gummy on the bottom if my butter is too soft. I guess it could be considered dense when that happens.
Hope that helps:/
NJsugarmama
Posted 16 Mar 2013 , 1:32am
post #4 of 5
AAh ha. Totally didnt see the recipe called for skim. I always use whole anytime a recipe calls for milk. Need that fat!
Glad it worked out.
Cakemommy2012
Posted 16 Mar 2013 , 2:57am
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Glad to hear of successful trys! Makes me wanna try again! It looks and sounded like an AMAZING white cake. Was def bummed when it didnt turn out! I even went out and bought Skim milk just for this recipe! LOL
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