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Angel food cake is a white sponge cake made with only stiffly beaten egg whites (yolks would make it yellow and inhibit the stiffening of the whites) and no butter. The first recipe in a cookbook for a white sponge cake is in Lettice Bryan's The Kentucky Housewife of 1839.
An almond cake made with ground almonds, flour, butter, egg and pastry cream. Angel cake: United Kingdom [1] A type of layered sponge cake, often garnished with cream and food coloring. Angel food cake: United States: A type of sponge cake made with egg whites, sugar, flour, vanilla, and a whipping agent such as cream of tartar. Apple cake: Germany
Sponge cake is a light cake made with eggs, flour and sugar, [1] sometimes leavened with baking powder. [2] Some sponge cakes do not contain egg yolks , like angel food cake , but most of them do. Sponge cakes, leavened with beaten eggs, originated during the Renaissance , possibly in Spain . [ 3 ]
Wacky cake, also called crazy cake, lazy cake, Joe cake, wowie cake, and WW II cake, [1] is a spongy, cocoa-based cake. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is unique in that unlike many pastries and desserts , no eggs , butter or milk are used to make the cake batter.
A similar cake with little or no flour is known as "fallen" or "molten" chocolate cake and was popularized by, among others, Jean-Georges Vongerichten's restaurants. [10] The River Café's "chocolate nemesis" is a version of a flourless chocolate cake, with only four ingredients, eggs, sugar, chocolate and butter. [11] [12]
They rely on the combination of butter and sugar beaten for an extended time to incorporate air into the batter. [11] A classic pound cake is made with a pound each of butter, sugar, eggs, and flour. Another type of butter cake that takes its name from the proportion of ingredients used is 1-2-3-4 cake: 1 cup butter, 2 cups sugar, 3 cups flour ...
White cake is a type of cake that is made without egg yolks.White cakes were also once known as silver cakes. [1]White cakes can be butter cakes or sponge cakes. [2] They became widely available in the later part of the 19th century, and became associated with weddings and christenings.
Chocolate lava cake smothered in chocolate sauce. Molten chocolate cakes characteristically contain five ingredients: butter, eggs, sugar, chocolate, and flour. [3] The butter and chocolate are melted together, while the eggs are either whisked with the sugar to form a thick paste, producing a denser pastry, or separated, with the white whipped into a meringue to provide more lift and a ...