Who can help me tweak this recipe?

[halo]

I was looking for an egg white cake online that wasnt an angel food cake and found this one.

http://nami-nami.blogspot.com/2009/01/egg-white-cake-recipe-angel-cake-recipe.html

It looks really interesting, but its strange. It has more sugar than flour, how wierd is that? And what exactly is caster sugar? What would be the best substitute for it, regular sugar, confectioner sugar, or a combination? Or sifted sugar?

 

[babylady4]

Castor sugar: Castor or caster sugar is the name of a very fine sugar in Britain, so named because the grains are small enough to fit though a sugar "caster" or sprinkler. It is sold as "superfine" sugar in the United States.

I think it would be just fine; reminds me of a chiffon type of cake.

 

[ChooksChick]

More sugar than flour is not uncommon, especially in things like brownies....mmmmmmmm.....brownies......

 

[keljonma]

Caster sugar is a British term for very fine sugar. It is sold as Superfine sugar in the US. Superfine is not a brand name, by the way, and sometimes it is called Bakers sugar (also not a brand name).

The person says on the blog that the recipe is from Estonia. IME, ethnic recipes sometimes defy what we think of as "normal".

 

[Buck Creek Chickens]

I'm going to try that one it sounds great

 

[halo]

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Well, if I cant find Superfine sugar, maybe Ill just trying sifting some.

I think I personally defy what we think of as "normal" too, so I should probably try this recipe

 

[PeggySue]

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Now why'd ya hafta go and bring up BROWNIES????

 

[Buck Creek Chickens]

you can 'make' super fine in the processor is not going to be as fine but pretty close

 

[Pupsnpullets]

The regular sugar in the US is already a lot finer than regular sugar in the UK, so it doesn't take much proccessing in the proccessor to make caster sugar. Don't let the term throw you off.

 

[jvls1942]

the sugar is going to melt regardless of how fine it is.. I would use regular sugar as it comes out of the bag.. I worked in a few bakeries, and we used "off the shelf" sugar for everything..