'Honey, I'm home.' 3 best words of the English language. So when my One and Only was coming home after 4 long months, I obviously had to make the best welcome cake. The fact that he came a day earlier than anticipated, meant that I didn't get time to do some icing. But this cake has enough credit to hold its own without the icing. It is THAT good.
It's also a no fuss cake. It is easily whipped up using basic baking ingredients available at home. And it contains eggs. This makes it the must-know recipe of a cake.
This cake was like a family member when my parents still ate egg. It was made when mom dad were not yet mom dad, it was made on birthdays, anniversaries, welcome homes and get well soons. It was the cake whose batter we ate and then scrapped the last remains off of the cake dish. Then our humble cake went into retirement when our parents gave up eating eggs and it became a lovely memory.
My sister and I hounded mom to remember exactly how she made it. We wanted to have our houses filled with the exact same aroma that reminded us of childhood days of polishing off the whole cake in one evening.
Mom remembered the recipe easily. Her cheat code for the cake was - 1,2,3,4. I de code this in my recipe.
Recipe
Ingredients:
1 cup : white butter (room temperature)
2 cups : powdered sugar (or 1.5 cups granulated sugar)
3 cups : flour and cocoa (2 cup flour and 1 cup cocoa)
4 eggs, separated
2 teaspoons : baking powder
1 teaspoon : vanilla essence
1/2 cup : chopped almonds or walnuts or both (optional)
Method:
It's also a no fuss cake. It is easily whipped up using basic baking ingredients available at home. And it contains eggs. This makes it the must-know recipe of a cake.
This cake was like a family member when my parents still ate egg. It was made when mom dad were not yet mom dad, it was made on birthdays, anniversaries, welcome homes and get well soons. It was the cake whose batter we ate and then scrapped the last remains off of the cake dish. Then our humble cake went into retirement when our parents gave up eating eggs and it became a lovely memory.
My sister and I hounded mom to remember exactly how she made it. We wanted to have our houses filled with the exact same aroma that reminded us of childhood days of polishing off the whole cake in one evening.
Mom remembered the recipe easily. Her cheat code for the cake was - 1,2,3,4. I de code this in my recipe.
Recipe
Ingredients:
1 cup : white butter (room temperature)
2 cups : powdered sugar (or 1.5 cups granulated sugar)
3 cups : flour and cocoa (2 cup flour and 1 cup cocoa)
4 eggs, separated
2 teaspoons : baking powder
1 teaspoon : vanilla essence
1/2 cup : chopped almonds or walnuts or both (optional)
Method:
- Preheat oven to 150 C. Grease a baking dish and dust with flour.
- Sift the flour, cocoa and baking powder in a bowl.
- Beat butter until soft (I use an electric beater). Add sugar and continue beating till well incorporated.
- Add egg yolks to butter mix and beat till the mixture becomes white and fluffy.
- In another bowl, using clean and dry equipment, beat the egg whites till stiff peaks form. (To know whether the whites are done or not, once you stop the beater, there should be peaks that are formed and when you turn the bowl upside down, the whites shouldn't fall).
- Fold in the egg whites to the egg yolk mix gradually, in installments, using a wooden spatula.
- Slowly add in all of the flour mix and combine gently.
- Add chopped nuts.
- Bake for 45 minutes.
Done!
~ Much Love.
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