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

How to make a cake, white so that only the look of his delicious biscuit and delicate cream made you forget about everything else? To sweet treat seemed a gift from a snowy winter? There are several basic recipes for this dessert, and even beginners are sure to cope with them.

A simple white cake

The preparation of this unprecedented deliciously delicious airy delicacy does not require any confectionery skills and special talents. It is enough to follow a concise, but at the same time sufficiently detailed recipe, and to monitor the quality of products purchased in the store.

Ingredients

For a simple, but exquisite treat, you will need:

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

Bakery products

Preheat your oven to 185 degrees. Take a shape about 25x25 cm, grease the bottom with butter, sprinkle with flour. If you prefer to make muffins, and not whole white cake, you can take the usual small molds and press them into the paper inserts.

In a medium-sized bowl, mix sugar with butter. Chop the eggs one by one, then add the vanilla extract. In another bowl, combine the flour and baking powder, then add this mixture to the cream mass and mix well. At the end, gradually add milk until the dough becomes relatively elastic and smooth. Pour the dough into a mold (or spread over the mousse molds).

Bake for 35-45 minutes in a preheated oven. If you make muffins, 20-25 minutes will be enough. Biscuit is ready when it literally springs when pressed.

Notes

• This biscuit cut in half with a clean thread and missed with your favorite cream or sweet jam. Decorate the cake at will with fruits, sugar flowers or figurines from cream, formed by means of a confectionery syringe.
• Use aluminum foil when baking, if you want the biscuit to remain wet enough.

Snow White Air Dessert

White cakes, photos of which can often be found in wedding albums, are usually made from egg whites - an ideal material for creating the effect of pristine whiteness and purity. If you need this effect, take the following products:

• 1.5 cups of normal wheat flour;
• 1.5 cups of confectionery flour;
• 15 g of baking powder;
• 6 g of salt;
• 225 grams of fatty butter with added sugar;
• 2 cups of fine white granulated sugar (can be taken brown);
• 2 teaspoons of natural vanilla extract;
• 7 egg whites (about 210 grams, or 1 cup);
• 1 glass of whole cow milk.

Preparation

• To make an airy white cake, beat the mixer with granulated sugar and butter. It will take about five minutes at the highest speed.
• In a medium-sized bowl, combine egg whites, whole milk and vanilla extract. Set it aside.
• At this time in another bowl, combine the baking powder with the pastry shop and ordinary wheat flour.
• Once the sugar and oil mixture has reached the desired consistency, add about half of the sifted dry ingredients.
• Then add a white mixture of milk and eggs, without stopping whisking (now at low speed). Periodically turn off the mixer and shovel the mass from the sides of the container to ensure even mixing of the components.
• Once the liquid has absorbed, return to the bowl with the remaining dry ingredients. Add a little to the total mass, each time waiting for all moisture to disappear, absorbed in the dough - it should turn out to be elastic, silky and white-white.
• Immediately pour the dough into a form smeared with sweet butter and sprinkled with a mango or flour.
• Bake in a preheated oven for thirty to forty minutes, checking the preparedness of the biscuit with a toothpick or wooden stick.

Helpful Tips

• Make sure all ingredients are at room temperature before you start mixing them.
• Such a white cake can be stored in the fridge for a month, if immediately after cooking, wrap it tightly with food film.

Option with sour cream

This incredibly tasty dessert is truly multifaceted: if you strictly follow the original recipe, you will end up with the perfect white biscuit with nutritious sour cream. If you add chocolate to the cake, it will, of course, cease to be white and will certainly please all lovers of popular products from cocoa beans. It is enough to combine vanilla extract with almond, and in the end you can enjoy the taste typical for cakes at village weddings in the southern regions of the United States. Well, an interesting interest in the form of orange or lemon zest will bring a real summer freshness into the sweet delicacy. Thus, you will prepare the same white cake (the recipe with the photo is suggested below), but each time its taste will be new.

Composition

For sour cream dessert you will need:

• 4 cups mixture for cake;
• 1 cup of normal wheat flour for baking;
• 1 cup of white sugar;
• 225 g of sour cream;
• 2 tablespoons deodorized sunflower or olive oil;
• 1 1/3 cup of clean drinking water;
• 3 large enough chicken eggs (you can use 4 proteins instead of them to make the cake an ideal whiteness);
• 2 teaspoons of natural vanilla extract.

How to bake sour cream cake

• Take a large bowl size, mix all the dry ingredients manually with a whisk.
• Add liquid ingredients and beat the mixture with a mixer for two to three minutes, setting a low speed. Consistency should become homogeneous.
• This biscuit does not rise very much in the oven, so choose the shape that the dough will fill in three quarters of the height.
• Bake a biscuit at 175 degrees.

From this amount of the test, two separate medium-sized biscuits are obtained, but if desired, you can pour less dough into the molds and make a three-layered white cake. From mastic, sold in confectionery shops in the finished form, enthusiasts make beautiful flowers for decorating dessert. Why not try it for you?

For baking masters

There are also complex recipes for white cakes, which only experienced culinary specialists will cope with. If you have already tried to bake this delicious dessert according to the instructions presented above, it is quite possible that it's time to test your strength in creating a genuine confectionery masterpiece.

What you need

For a delicacy multilayer cake, you will need the following ingredients:

• 2.5 cups of confectionery flour;
• 0.75 cups of ordinary wheat flour for homemade baking;
• 1 tablespoon of a mixture of flour, soda and salt (baking powder);
• 1 teaspoon of baking soda;
• 0.75 teaspoons of salt;
• 0.5 cup softened fatty butter with added sugar;
• 0.5 cup vegetable combi (shortening based on a mixture of vegetable oils);
• 1.75 cups of fine granulated sugar (can be taken brown);
• 1 tablespoon of natural vanilla extract without impurities;
• 1 large chicken egg;
• 1.5 cups of ice water;
• 3 large chicken yolks, brought to room temperature;
• 0,25 teaspoon of potassium tartrate.

The decoration of the white cake will consist mainly of glaze. To prepare it you will need:

• 170 g of white chocolate (chopped into large pieces);
• 1.5 cups of fine granulated sugar (if desired, you can take brown sugar);
• 0.33 cups of normal wheat flour for homemade baking;
• 1.5 cups of whole milk;
• 0.33 cups of the fatty sour cream;
• 1.5 cup softened, but sufficiently cold sweetened butter, which must be cut into small pieces;
• 1 teaspoon of natural vanilla extract.

For additional decor, you can take a white or colored confectionery powder or ready decorations from mastic, for example petals and buds. A white cake with flowers from plastic sugar dough will give a special glamor to any holiday, be it birthday, anniversary or a luxurious wedding.

Creating a masterpiece

• Preheat the oven to medium temperature. Lubricate the butter with three 20-centimeter round forms for biscuit, lay out on the bottom of parchment paper, which also need to be smeared with butter or margarine on top. Sprinkle the paper with flour.
• Sift both kinds of flour, then mix in a large bowl of dry ingredients: flour, baking mixture, baking soda and salt. Set it aside.
• In a bowl of electric mixer with a shovel, whip butter and vegetable combinigar, setting the average speed. The consistency of the mixture should become creamy (this will take about 3-4 minutes). Add sugar and vanilla extract and continue to beat until flocculation (about three minutes). Stir, add the egg and whisk until smooth. Turn on low speed. Add a little flour mixture, alternating with ice water. Stir and then turn on the low speed for a few seconds. From these cakes will consist of your white cake (the recipe - with a photo, so you can estimate the density of the desired consistency in the image).
• In a medium-sized bowl, whisk egg whites and a tartar. Gently tamper with the dough.
• Divide the dough into three parts and bake for 40-45 minutes, checking the readiness of the crochet with a toothpick.

White chocolate glaze

• Melt the white chocolate in the microwave and let it cool.
• In a saucepan with a thick bottom, mix the flour and sugar. Add milk and cream, put the mixture on medium fire for about 20 minutes.
• Pour the mixture into the mixer bowl with a spatula and whisk at high speed until cooling. Then add butter and whisk until smooth. Do not turn off the mixer until the glaze becomes airy.
• Add the vanilla and white chocolate, whisk again to a homogeneous consistency. If the mixture turns out to be too soft and flowing, cool it a bit and beat it again until you achieve the necessary density. Excessively thickened glaze can be lightly melt in a water bath.

Ready-made dessert

It remains only to cool the frosting for a few minutes in the refrigerator and gently collect the cake from the white cakes, after which cover the sides and top of the cake with glaze. You can decorate it with ready-made sugar flowers or confectionery powder.

If you want to make a black and white cake, just replace the white chocolate in the recipe for a bitter (at least 75% cocoa).