How to make a cake so white that just the sight of its delicious biscuit and delicate cream makes you forget about everything else? To make a sweet treat a gift from a snowy winter? There are several basic recipes for such a dessert, and even novice cooks will surely cope with them.
Plain white cake
The preparation of this unprecedentedly delicious deliciously airy delicacy does not require any pastry skills or special talents. It is enough to follow a concise, but at the same time quite detailed recipe, and monitor the quality of products purchased in the store.
Ingredients
For a simple but refined treat you will need:
- 1 cup sugar
- 0.5 cups butter with sugar;
- 2 large chicken eggs;
- 2 teaspoons of natural vanilla extract;
- 1.5 cups of plain wheat flour;
- 1.75 teaspoons of baking powder (flour, salt and soda);
- 0.5 cups of whole cow's milk.
Bakery products
Preheat your oven to 185 degrees. Take a mold about 25x25 cm in size, grease the bottom with butter, sprinkle with flour. If you prefer to make muffins rather than a whole white cake, you can take the usual small molds and press paper inserts into them.
In a medium-sized bowl, mix sugar with butter. Beat the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla extract. In another bowl, combine the flour and baking powder, then add this mixture to the cream mass and mix well. At the end, add a little milk until the dough becomes relatively elastic and smooth. Pour the dough into a mold (or spread it on muffin tins).
Bake for 35-45 minutes in a preheated oven. If you make muffins, 20-25 minutes will be enough. The biscuit is ready when it literally springs when pressed.
Notes
- This biscuit is cut in half with a clean thread and smeared with your favorite cream or sweet jam. Decorate the cake at will with fruits, sugar flowers or cream figures formed by means of a confectionery syringe.
- Use aluminum foil for baking if you want the biscuit to remain moist enough.
Snow-white air dessert
White cakes, photos of which can often be found in wedding albums, are usually made from egg whites - the ideal material to create the effect of pristine whiteness and purity. If you need this effect, take the following products:
- 1.5 cups of plain wheat flour;
- 1.5 cups of confectionery flour;
- 15 g baking powder;
- 6 g of salt;
- 225 g of fatty butter with added sugar;
- 2 cups of fine white granulated sugar (you can take brown);
- 2 teaspoons of natural vanilla extract;
- 7 egg whites (approximately 210 g, or 1 cup);
- 1 cup whole cow’s milk.
Cooking
- To make an airy white cake, beat with a mixer the granulated sugar and butter. It will take about five minutes at the highest speed.
- In a medium-sized bowl, combine egg whites, whole milk, and vanilla extract. Set aside.
- At this time, in another bowl, combine the baking powder with a confectionery and plain wheat flour.
- Once the sugar-butter mixture has reached the desired consistency, add about half of the sifted dry ingredients there.
- Then add the white mixture of milk and eggs, without ceasing to beat (now at low speed). Periodically turn off the mixer and rake the mass from the sides of the container to ensure uniform mixing of the components.
- Once the liquid is absorbed, return to the bowl with the remaining dry ingredients. Add a little to the total mass, each time waiting for all the moisture to disappear, soaking in the dough - it should turn out to be elastic, silky and boiling white.
- Immediately pour the dough into a mold smeared with sweet butter and sprinkled with semolina or flour.
- Bake in a preheated oven for thirty to forty minutes, checking the readiness of the biscuit with a toothpick or wooden stick.
Useful Tips
- Make sure all ingredients are at room temperature before you mix them.
- Such a white cake can be stored in the refrigerator for a month, if immediately after cooking, tightly wrap it with cling film.
Sour cream option
This incredibly delicious dessert is truly multifaceted: if you strictly follow the original recipe, you will end up with a perfect white biscuit with nutritious sour cream. If you add chocolate to the cake, it, by itself, will cease to be white and will surely please all lovers of popular products from cocoa beans. It is enough to combine vanilla extract with almond extract , and in the end you can enjoy the taste typical of cakes at village weddings in the southern regions of the USA. Well, an interesting emphasis in the form of orange or lemon peel will bring real summer freshness to the sweet delicacy. Thus, you will prepare the same white cake (the recipe with the photo is offered below), but each time its taste will be new.
Structure
For sour cream dessert you will need:
- 4 cups cake mix;
- 1 cup ordinary wheat flour for baking;
- 1 cup white sugar
- 225 g sour cream;
- 2 tablespoons of deodorized sunflower or olive oil;
- 1 1/3 cup pure drinking water;
- 3 large enough eggs (you can use 4 squirrels instead, so that the cake acquires perfect whiteness);
- 2 teaspoons of natural vanilla extract.
How to Bake Sour Cream Cake
- Take a large bowl, mix all the dry ingredients in it by hand with a whisk.
- Add liquid ingredients and beat the mixture with a mixer for two to three minutes, setting a low speed. Consistency should be uniform.
- This biscuit does not rise very much in the oven, so choose a form that the dough will fill at three quarters of the height.
- Bake a biscuit at 175 degrees.
From this amount of dough, two separate medium-sized biscuits are obtained, however, if desired, you can pour less dough into molds and make a three-layer white cake. Enthusiasts make beautiful flowers to decorate desserts from mastic, which is sold ready-made in pastry shops. Why not give it a try?
For baking masters
There are complex recipes for white cakes, which only experienced chefs can handle. If you have already tried to bake this delicious dessert according to the instructions presented above, it is quite possible that it is time to try your hand at creating an authentic pastry masterpiece.
What do you need
For a delicious multi-layer cake, you will need the following ingredients:
- 2.5 cups of confectionery flour;
- 0.75 cups of ordinary wheat flour for home baking;
- 1 tablespoon of a mixture of flour, soda and salt (baking powder);
- 1 teaspoon of drinking soda;
- 0.75 teaspoons of salt;
- 0.5 cups softened fatty butter with added sugar;
- 0.5 cup vegetable mix (shortening based on a mixture of vegetable oils);
- 1.75 cups of granulated sugar (you can take brown);
- 1 tablespoon of natural vanilla extract without impurities;
- 1 large chicken egg;
- 1.5 cups of ice water;
- 3 large chicken yolks brought to room temperature;
- 0.25 teaspoon of potassium tartrate.
White cake decorating will consist mainly of glaze. To prepare it you will need:
- 170 g of white chocolate (you need to chop into large pieces);
- 1.5 cups of fine granulated sugar (if desired, you can take brown sugar);
- 0.33 cups of ordinary wheat flour for home baking;
- 1.5 cups of whole milk;
- 0.33 cups of the most fat sour cream;
- 1.5 cups of softened, but cold enough sweetened butter, which must be cut into small pieces;
- 1 teaspoon of natural vanilla extract.
For additional decor, you can take white or colored pastry topping or ready- made mastic decorations, such as petals and buds. White cake with flowers from plastic sugar dough will give a special chic to any holiday, whether it is a birthday, anniversary or a luxurious wedding.
Creating a masterpiece
- Preheat the oven to medium temperature. Butter three 20-centimeter round biscuit molds with butter, place parchment paper on the bottom, which also needs to be greased with butter or margarine on top. Sprinkle paper with flour.
- Sift both types of flour, then mix the dry ingredients in a large bowl: flour, baking mixture, baking soda, and salt. Set aside.
- In a bowl of an electric mixer with a spatula, beat butter and vegetable combi, setting the average speed. The consistency of the mixture should become creamy (it will take about 3-4 minutes). Add sugar and vanilla extract and continue whisking until flakes form (about three minutes). Stir, add the egg and beat again until smooth. Turn on low speed. Add a little flour mixture, alternating with ice water. Shuffle and turn low speed back on for just a few seconds. Your white cake will consist of these cakes (the recipe is with a photo, so you can estimate the density of the desired consistency from the image).
- In a medium-sized bowl, beat egg whites and tartar with a whisk . Gently stir into the dough.
- Divide the dough into three parts and bake for 40-45 minutes, checking the readiness of the cakes with a toothpick.
White chocolate icing
- Melt the white chocolate in the microwave and let it cool.
- In a thick-bottomed pan, combine flour and sugar. Add milk and cream, put the mixture on medium heat for about 20 minutes.
- Pour the mixture into the bowl of the mixer with a spatula and beat at high speed until cool. Then add oil and beat until smooth. Do not turn off the mixer until the icing is airy.
- Add vanilla and white chocolate, whisk again until smooth. If the mixture is too soft and fluid, cool it a little and beat again until you get the necessary density. Excessively thickened glaze can be slightly melted in a water bath.
Ready dessert
It remains only to cool the icing for several minutes in the refrigerator and gently collect the cake from the white cakes, then coat the sides and top of the cake with icing. You can decorate it with ready-made sugar flowers or confectionery sprinkles.
If you want to make a black and white cake, simply replace the white chocolate in the recipe with bitter (at least 75% cocoa).