Any Home Bakers Here?

[Peaches Lee]

Anyone have a good white cake recipe? I baked one last night, recipe was from an old Betty Crocker book, and it tastes like a frosted biscuit... So, I'm a little disappointed and looking for something better! Thank you!

 

[ronott1]

Anyone have a good white cake recipe? I baked one last night, recipe was from an old Betty Crocker book, and it tastes like a frosted biscuit... So, I'm a little disappointed and looking for something better! Thank you!

I really like the three egg cake I make. It is not super white but is very tasty.

Three Egg Cake

½ C Butter
1 ¾ cups sugar
2 teaspoons vanilla extrac
3 eggs
2 ¼ cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
½ teaspoon salt
1 cup milk
Set rack at the middle level in the oven and preheat to 350 degrees.

Butter the bottom of two 9-inch round or one 13 by 9 by 2-inch pan. Line bottom with parchment or waxed paper.

In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Stir together flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside. Combine eggs milk and vanilla extract. Add 1/3 of the flour mixture to the butter mixture then add half the milk mixture. Continue to alternate beginning and ending with flour mixture. Scrape the bowl and beater often.

Pour the batter into prepared pan(s) and smooth top with metal spatula. Bake cake(s) about 25 to 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center emerges clean.

Cool in pan on rack for 5 minutes, then turn out onto a rack, remove paper and let cool completely.

 

[ronott1]

I have this one in my cake folder:

Classic White Cake

Recipe courtesy of Gourmet Magazine

12 tablespoons (1 1/2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 cups all purpose flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
6 large egg whites (3/4 cup)
3/4 cup milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Set rack at the middle level in the oven and preheat to 350 degrees.

Butter the bottom of two 9-inch round or one 13 by 9 by 2-inch pan. Line bottom with parchment or waxed paper.

In a large bowl, beat butter and sugar for about 5 minutes, until light and fluffy. Stir together flour, baking powder and salt. Set aside. Combine egg whites, milk and vanilla extract. Add 1/3 of the flour mixture to the butter mixture then add half the milk mixture. Continue to alternate beginning and ending with flour mixture. Scrape the bowl and beater often.

Pour the batter into prepared pan(s) and smooth top with metal spatula. Bake cake(s) about 25 to 30 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center emerges clean.

Cool in pan on rack for 5 minutes, then turn out onto a rack, remove paper and let cool completely.

Note: For a classic yellow cake- Substitute 3 large eggs and 1 yolk for the egg whites.

 

[Peaches Lee]

Thanks ronott1! Once this cake is gone, as I am begrudgingly eating it, I will try those recipes! Now, the recipe did call for egg whites, but I put in the hole egg, could that have been the problem regarding taste? (I thought it would make it taste better but IDK)

 

[pennyJo1960]

a plain white cake
okay have not tried this but will now also probably tomorrow
White Cake

2 1/2 cups flour
3 1/4tsp. baking powder
1 tsp. salt 1
1/3 c sugar
1/2 c shortening
1 c milk
1 1/2 tsp vanilla
1/4 tsp almond extract

4 egg whites
1/3 c sugar whip together for a meringue

combine flour, baking powder, first sugar . blend shortening to soften add milk and flavoring. sift in the dry ingredients and stir to dampen mix 2 minutes add the meringue
and beat 1 minute longer bake at 350 till done.
Mrs. Robert Alich, Farmington, Minnesota
This is from Dakota County Tribune cook book no. 4 1961

Typing this it sounds so good with the added meringue I am going to do it tomorrow

 

[ronott1]

Thanks ronott1! Once this cake is gone, as I am begrudgingly eating it, I will try those recipes! Now, the recipe did call for egg whites, but I put in the hole egg, could that have been the problem regarding taste? (I thought it would make it taste better but IDK)

Yes! That would throw off the ratios in the cake.

Try the 3 egg cake I posted. That is a cake recipe from My Mom and I have been baking it since the 1970's

 

[wyoDreamer]

Thanks for the advice everybody. Lasagna turned out wonderful! And the cheesecake for desert wasn't too shabby either. I canned up some cherry pie filling the other day and had some leftovers in the fridge that needs to be eaten. What is better with cherry pie filling than cheesecake? Well, maybe poundcake ranks up there also, but my chickens have just about stopped laying.

 

[ronott1]

Thanks for the advice everybody. Lasagna turned out wonderful! And the cheesecake for desert wasn't too shabby either. I canned up some cherry pie filling the other day and had some leftovers in the fridge that needs to be eaten. What is better with cherry pie filling than cheesecake? Well, maybe poundcake ranks up there also, but my chickens have just about stopped laying.

That is great!

Cherry pie filling is great on ice cream too

 

[N F C]

Thanks for the advice everybody. Lasagna turned out wonderful! And the cheesecake for desert wasn't too shabby either. I canned up some cherry pie filling the other day and had some leftovers in the fridge that needs to be eaten. What is better with cherry pie filling than cheesecake? Well, maybe poundcake ranks up there also, but my chickens have just about stopped laying.

Sounds like a wonderful dinner!

 

[N F C]

Is everyone planning for Thanksgiving dinner yet? I just realized it's next week! This year is wrapping up quickly.

It will be just DH & I for Thanksgiving so we're keeping meal plans pretty simple (at least, that's what we're saying now). I think we'll do a baked turkey breast, baked sweet potatoes and dressing. And pumpkin pie of course