How to make a white cake: a recipe with a photo

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

How to make a cake so white that the mere sight of its delicious biscuit and delicate cream will make you forget about everything else? To make a sweet treat seem like 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

Preparing this unparalleled delicious deliciously airy treat 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 yet delicious treat you will need:

• 1 cup of sugar;
• 0.5 cups butter with added sugar;
• 2 large chicken eggs;
• 2 teaspoons natural vanilla extract;
• 1.5 cups plain wheat flour;
• 1, 75 teaspoons baking powder (flour, s alt and soda);
• 0.5 cups whole cow's milk.

Baking

Preheat your oven to 185 degrees. Take a form about 25x25 cm in size, grease the bottombutter, 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 bowl, mix together the sugar and butter. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla extract. In another bowl, combine flour and baking powder, then add this mixture to the creamy mass and mix well. At the end, add milk little by little until the dough is relatively elastic and smooth. Pour the batter into the mold (or divide into cupcake liners).

Bake for 35-45 minutes in preheated oven. If you are making muffins, 20-25 minutes will suffice. The biscuit is ready when it literally springs back 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 as desired with fruit, sugar flowers or cream figures formed with a pastry syringe.
• Use aluminum foil when baking if you want the cake to stay moist enough.

Snow-white airy dessert

White cakes, often found in wedding albums, are usually made from egg whites, the perfect material for creating the effect of pristine whiteness and purity. If you want this effect, take the following products:

• 1.5 cups plain wheat flour;
• 1.5 cups pastry flour;
• 15 g baker'spowder;
• 6g s alt;
• 225g full fat butter with added sugar;
• 2 cups fine white granulated sugar (you can use brown);
• 2 teaspoons natural vanilla extract;
• 7 egg whites (approximately 210g, or 1 cup);
• 1 cup whole cow's milk.

Cooking

• To make a fluffy white cake, beat granulated sugar and butter with a mixer. It will take about five minutes at the highest speed.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together egg whites, whole milk and vanilla extract. Postpone.
• Meanwhile, in another bowl, combine baking powder with confectionery and plain wheat flour.
• Once the sugar-butter mixture reaches the desired consistency, add approximately half of the sifted dry ingredients.
• Then add the white milk and egg mixture, beating constantly (now on low speed). Periodically turn off the mixer and scrape the mass from the sides of the container to ensure even mixing of the ingredients.
• Once liquid is absorbed, return to bowl with remaining dry ingredients. Add a little to the total mass, each time waiting for all the moisture to disappear, soaked into the dough - it should turn out elastic, silky and boiling white.
• Immediately pour the dough into a mold brushed with sweet butter and sprinkled with semolina or flour.
• Bake in preheated oven for thirty to forty minutes, checking for donenessbiscuit with a toothpick or wooden stick.

Helpful tips

• Make sure all ingredients are at room temperature before you start mixing them.
• This white cake can be stored in the refrigerator for a month if wrapped tightly with cling film immediately after cooking.

Sour cream variant

This incredibly delicious dessert is truly multifaceted: if you strictly follow the original recipe, you will end up with the perfect white biscuit with nourishing sour cream. If you add chocolate to the cake, it will, of course, cease to be white and will surely please all lovers of popular cocoa bean products. It is enough to combine vanilla extract with almond extract, and in the end you can enjoy the taste typical of cakes at rustic weddings in the southern regions of the United States. Well, an interesting accent in the form of orange or lemon zest will bring real summer freshness to the sweet delicacy. Thus, you will cook the same white cake (recipe with photo is provided below), but each time its taste will be different.

Composition

For sour cream dessert you will need:

• 4 cups cake mix;
• 1 cup plain wheat flour for baking;
• 1 cup white sugar;
• 225g sour cream;
• 2 tablespoons deodorized sunflower or olive oil;
• 1 1/3 cup clean drinking water;
• 3 large enough chicken eggs (you can use 4 egg whites instead to make the cake perfectwhite);
• 2 teaspoons natural vanilla extract.

How to bake a sour cream cake

• Take a large bowl and mix all the dry ingredients in it by hand using a whisk.
• Add liquid ingredients and beat the mixture with a mixer for two to three minutes on low speed. The consistency should become homogeneous.
• This biscuit does not rise very much in the oven, so choose a shape that will fill three-quarters of the way.
• Bake the biscuit at 175 degrees.

This amount of batter makes two separate medium sized biscuits, however you can pour less batter into the molds if desired to make a three layer white cake. From mastic sold in ready-made form in pastry shops, enthusiasts make beautiful flowers to decorate desserts. Why don't you try it too?

For bakers

There are also complex recipes for white cakes that only experienced chefs can handle. If you've already tried this delicious dessert with the instructions above, it's probably time to try your hand at creating an authentic confectionery masterpiece.

What you need

For a delicious layered cake, you will need the following ingredients:

• 2, 5 cups pastry flour;
• 0.75 cups plain flour for home baking;
• 1 tbsp flour, baking soda and s alt mixture (baking powder);
• 1 teaspoondrinking soda;
• 0, 75 teaspoons of s alt;
• 0.5 cups softened full fat butter with added sugar;
• 0, 5 cups of vegetable fat (shortening based on a mixture of vegetable oils);
• 1, 75 cups fine granulated sugar (you can use brown);
• 1 tablespoon pure natural vanilla extract;
• 1 large chicken egg;
• 1.5 cups of ice water;
• 3 large chicken yolks, brought to room temperature;
• 0, 25 teaspoons potassium tartrate.

The decoration of the white cake will consist mainly of icing. For its preparation you will need:

• 170 g white chocolate (to be cut into large chunks);
• 1, 5 cups fine granulated sugar (brown sugar optional)
• 0, 33 cups plain flour for home baking;
• 1.5 cups whole milk;
• 0, 33 cups of the fattest sour cream;
• 1.5 cups sweetened butter, softened but cold enough to be cut into small pieces;
• 1 teaspoon natural vanilla extract.

For additional decor, you can take white or colored confectionery sprinkles or ready-made mastic decorations, such as petals and buds. White cake with flowers made of plastic sugar dough will add a special chic to any occasion, whether it's a birthday, anniversary or a luxurious wedding.

Creating a masterpiece

• Prepreheat the oven to medium temperature. Butter three 20 cm round biscuit molds with butter, put parchment paper on the bottom, which also needs to be greased with butter or margarine on top. Flour the paper.
• Sift both flours, then combine dry ingredients in a large bowl: flour, baking mix, baking soda and s alt. Postpone.
• In the bowl of an electric mixer with paddle, beat butter and vegetable fat on medium speed. The consistency of the mixture should become creamy (this will take about 3-4 minutes). Add sugar and vanilla extract and continue beating until flaky (about three minutes). Stir, add the egg and beat again until smooth. Turn on low speed. Add flour mixture little by little, alternating with ice water. Stir and again turn on low speed 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 bowl, whisk together the egg whites and cream of tartar. Gently fold into the batter.
• Divide the dough into thirds and bake for 40-45 minutes, checking for doneness with a toothpick.

White chocolate frosting

• Melt the white chocolate in the microwave and let it cool.
• In a heavy bottomed saucepan, combine flour and sugar. Add milk and cream, put the mixture on medium heat for about 20 minutes.
• Pour overmixture into the bowl of a stand mixer and beat on high speed until cool. Then add oil and beat again until smooth. Keep mixer running until frosting is fluffy.
• Add vanilla and white chocolate, beat again until smooth. If the mixture is too soft and runny, let it cool a little and beat again until you reach the desired density. Excessively thickened glaze can be slightly melted in a water bath.

Ready dessert

It remains only to cool the icing for a few minutes in the refrigerator and carefully assemble the cake from white layers, 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, just replace the white chocolate in the recipe with dark chocolate (at least 75% cocoa).