Looking For A (Very) White Cake Recipe
Baking By RickMeasham Updated 5 Mar 2014 , 10:14pm by RickMeasham
Hi, I'm not looking for what most people seem to call white cake. I'm looking for a recipe that cooks is white-as-snow.
I've tried various recipes, and used the whitest ingredients, but the cook yellow. I need white.
Anyone have such a recipe they're prepared to share?
I ran across this yesterday, it's a good visual. Maybe you'd like to try one of the recipes that makes the white-white cake. http://thebakemore.blogspot.com/2011/01/white-cake-taste-test.html
Hi Kelleym,
Thanks for this reply from 18 months back! I followed the URL you provided and have used the Cooks Illustrated White Layer recipe several times! I couldn't find the recipe so came back to the forum to find it and realised I hadn't thanked you for your help.
For the record, the recipe comes from here:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/COOKS-ILLUSTRATED-WHITE-LAYER-CAKE-50017374
And in case it's delete from the site, it's here now too:
ingredients
2 1/4 cups cake flour (9 ounces), plus more for dusting the pans1 cup whole milk, at room temperature
6 large egg whites (3/4 cup), at room temperature
2 teaspoons almond extract
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 3/4 cups granulated sugar (12 1/4 ounces)
4 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon table salt
12 tablespoons unsalted butter (1 1/2 sticks), softened but still cool
preparation
Set oven rack in middle position. (If oven is too small to cook both layers on a single rack, set racks in upper-middle and lower-middle positions.) Heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray two 9-inch round cake pans with nonstickcooking spray; line the bottoms with parchment or waxed paper rounds. Spray the paper rounds, dust the pans with flour, and invert pans and rap sharply to remove excess flour.
Pour milk, egg whites, and extracts into 2-cup glass measure, and mix with fork until blended.
Mix cake flour, sugar, baking powder, and salt in bowl of electric mixer at slow speed. Add butter; continue beating
at slow speed until mixture resembles moist crumbs, with no powdery streaks remaining.
Add all but 1/2 cup of milk mixture to crumbs and beat at medium speed (or high speed if using handheld mixer) for 1 1/2 minutes. Add remaining 1/2 cup of milk mixture
and beat 30 seconds more. Stop mixer and scrape sides of bowl. Return mixer to medium (or high) speed and beat 20 seconds longer.
Divide batter evenly between two prepared cake pans; using rubber spatula, spread batter to pan walls and smooth tops. Arrange pans at least 3 inches from the oven walls and 3 inches apart. (If oven is small, place pans on separate racks in staggered fashion to allow for air circulation.) Bake until thin skewer or toothpick inserted
in the center comes out clean, 23 to 25 minutes.
Let cakes rest in pans for 3 minutes. Loosen from sides of pans with a knife, if necessary, and invert onto wire racks. Reinvert onto additional wire racks. Let cool completely,
about 1 1/2 hours.
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