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4/19/14

Magic Cake

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Magic Cake

Ingredients: 

4 eggs (separate yolks from whites) at room temperature
1 t. vanilla extract
¾ c. sugar
½ c. butter, melted
¾ c. all-purpose flour
2 c. milk, lukewarm
Confectioners’ sugar for dusting cake

Directions: 

Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Grease an 8 x 8 inch baking dish.

Separate eggs. In a small bowl, beat egg whites until they are stiff. Set aside.

Beat egg yolks with sugar until light. Add butter and vanilla extract; beat two minutes. Add flour and mix until fully incorporated. Slowly add milk and beat until well mixed. Add egg whites, a third at a time and gently fold them in using a spatula, repeat until all egg whites are folded in. Batter will be very loose. Pour batter into baking dish and bake for 40 minutes until the top is lightly golden. Cool completely; Sprinkle with confectioners’ sugar.

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     The yolks rolled down the sugar and got coated with it. I love the way they look 

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     This is not really a cake. It's a thin crust with a custard filling and a cooked meringue top. It's very good. 

     The recipe comes from a link in this blog. The blog is for the chocolate version, but Dave gave up chocolate for Lent. So, I made the original version. This is VERY easy to make and is special! 

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Comments (4)

  • 5/11/14 - Linda (LRuthers)LOL Thassa!! I've heard that the chocolate version is especially tasty!
  • 5/11/14 - Thassa (doedoggg)lol I didn't even see that you had made this when I posted at Cooks! Its very yummy!
  • 4/23/14 - Linda (LRuthers)Oh, yum! Peanut butter frosted brownies sound scrumptious to me, and Dave is a freak for cherry...  Show Full Comment
  • 4/22/14 - Cats (NancyMI)I find it interesting how different everyone's cake turns out. You call the top layer a meringue...  Show Full Comment
About the Author
Linda (LRuthers)

 

 





     I'm convinced that there are many more bad recipes than there are bad cooks. The problem is that sometimes decent cooks use bad recipes and then believe that the poor results are their fault.


     When people print recipes in cookbooks, magazines, etc. or when they post them online, they seldom tell the pitfalls or the little tips needed to make the recipe turn out well. And, too, quite a few printed recipes contain typos!


     I search for recipes that are good. Dependable. I'm not a chef. I'm a mother and grandmother who's been cooking for >45 years.


     I believe that any recipe posted for the general public should be one that I can master. If not, there's something wrong with the recipe.


     I post my successes and my failures, and tell what I learned when following each new recipe. I learn more from my mistakes. I don't know what that says about me.


     The very best recipes are the ones that are inexpensive, delicious AND easy. And there are a lot of those.


     Sometimes, I spend a little more and work a little harder for a recipe that seems to be one that will make people really happy.


Thanks, Linda


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