Ingredients
- 3/4 cup butter flavored vegetable shortening, 140 grams
- 1 1/4 cup sugar, 300 grams
- 2 1/2 cups cake flour, sifted, 300 grams
- 3 teaspoons baking powder, 14 grams
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 8 egg yolks, beaten, 130 grams
- 3/4 cup milk, 180 grams
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Directions
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Grease 2 (9-inch) cake pans with shortening and set aside.
Cream together the shortening and the sugar. Combine the flour, baking powder, and salt. Slowly alternate adding the egg yolks and milk with the dry ingredients and mix until well combined. Add the vanilla and mix well.
Pour into the prepared pans, about 550 grams of batter for each cake. Bake for 18 to 20 minutes. Remove from oven and cool on a rack.
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By tep68
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on June 19, 2011
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This recipe came out really well with the fixes described below by buteersPbutters! Thank you for posting them! It bakes in my oven in the same time as the original recipe -- but that may be my oven.
By buttersPbutters
Alameda, CA
on May 02, 2011
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After some tinkering, I think I fixed this recipe. The batter was too dry and needed more flavor. I'm almost shocked that an AB recipe was so short on salt, because usually it's the other way around.
I settled on 300g sugar, 300g cake flour, 170g butter (1 1/2 sticks, 100g egg yolks (6 large, 240g whole milk (1 cup, 20g baking powder (4 tsp, 8g vanilla extract (2 tsp, and 5g salt (1 tsp kosher. I prefer to slowly drizzle in the lightly beaten egg yolks and add the vanilla before alternating the dry goods and the milk. Otherwise the creaming method is the same.
This version takes a little bit longer to bake because of the extra milk, about 25-30 minutes, but it doesn't dry out as easily as either the online version or especially the TV version, and the combination of less egg yolk and more baking powder lightens up the crumb. Double the vanilla and 3-4 times the salt resolves the blandness problem.
I hope this helps those who were confused and unsatisfied by this recipe.
By Mommy Saute
on April 30, 2011
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I don't know if I did something wrong, but I really wasn't a huge fan of this cake. Usually Alton does awesome everything, but I didn't really like the flavor or texture of this cake. I follwed the recipe that is in the book (he increased the flour and sugar, maybe the one in the show is better?
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