{"id":2642,"date":"2021-02-21T13:22:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T13:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/?p=2642"},"modified":"2024-12-22T00:21:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T00:21:20","slug":"making-plain-cake-with-lemon-sauce-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.malak.ca\/blog\/index.php\/2021\/02\/21\/making-plain-cake-with-lemon-sauce-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Plain Cake (With Lemon Sauce) — Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This weekend’s cooking projects from my collection of recipes<\/a> included more<\/a> chocolate buttecrunch<\/a>, more<\/a> bran muffins<\/a>, and the subject of this post, plain cake<\/a>, with the addition of a lemon sauce as an experiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I came about to learning to make plain cake<\/a> from scratch after I attempted to make a New York crumble cake I’d seen being made on a Martha Stewart cooking show. Not only was the cake not as expected — we were expecting mostly cake with a modest but tasty crumble crust, instead of the actual small amount of cake and a sizable crumble crust — the cake did not bake well, and I was very disinclined to try it again. The next day, I looked for a plain cake recipe on the internet and found one, which I adapted to my format<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First, two cups of flour were placed in a mixing bowl:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Two cups of flour added to a mixing bowl<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

… to which two teaspoons of baking powder were added:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Baking powder added to the flour<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

… as well as a quarter teaspoon of salt:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Quarter teaspoon salt added to flour and baking powder<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The flour, baking powder, and salt were blended with a fork:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blending flour, baking powder, and salt<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The bowl was then put aside until later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Margarine was picked up on a piece of paper towelling:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Margarine on a piece of paper towel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

… in order to coat the interior surfaces of the baking pan:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Inner surfaces of baking pan coated with margarine<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Then, a bit of flour was put in the pan …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Flour put into pan<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

… and spread around to coat the margarine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Baking pan coated with flour and margarine<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The baking pan was also put aside until later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In another mixing bowl, a quarter cup of shortening was added:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A quarter cup of shortening in a mixing bowl<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The shortening was creamed with an electric mixer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Creamed shortening<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A cup of sugar was added to the creamed shortening:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Adding a cup of sugar to the creamed shortening<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

… and the sugar and shortening were blended:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sugar and shortening blended<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

An egg was added to the mixing bowl:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Egg added to mixing bowl<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

… and the ingredients were again blended:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Egg, sugar, and shortening blended<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A teaspoon of vanilla extract was added to the mix:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A teaspoon of vanilla extract being added to the mix<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A teaspoon of vanilla extract added to the mix<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

… and again, the ingredients were blended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About a third of the flour mix prepared earlier, and about a third of a cup of milk, were added to the ingredients:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A third of the flour mix and a third of a cup of milk added to the ingredients<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

… and completely blended:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cake batter thoroughly mixed<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The previous two steps were repeated twice until all the milk and flour mix were blended into the batter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The batter was then transferred to the floured baking pan:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Batter transferred to baking pan<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

… and placed in a countertop convection oven preheated to 350F:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cake pan in countertop convection oven<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

At this point, I was getting rather thirsty, so I poured myself some iced tea, and a bottle of my homebrew, a Belgian-style brown ale, made with water from filtered<\/a>, melted ice from the lake at my cottage:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some of my homebrew, and some iced tea<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Aaahhhhh …<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Since my mom suggested that a lemon drizzle be added to the cake, first a few tablespoons of icing sugar were placed in a bowl:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Icing sugar added to a bowl<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

… to which half the number of teaspoons of lemon juice were added:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lemon juice added to the icing sugar<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

… and the ingredients were mixed, then put aside for later:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Icing sugar and lemon juice mixed together<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Soon, the cake in the oven was puffing up and browning:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cake baking in the oven<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

… and was taken out of the oven after 55 minutes of baking:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fully baked cake<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The cake was pricked multiple times with a thick needle …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pricking the cake<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

… to allow for some absorption of the lemon sauce which was poured over the cake with a small plastic scoop:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pouring the lemon sauce on the cake<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

… at which point, the cake looked like follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Baked cake with lemon sauce<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

When cooled, a knife was used to loosen the cake around its edges in the baking pan, and the cake was taken out of the baking pan:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cake removed from baking pan<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

A few slices of cake were cut from the cake:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cake with some pieces sliced off<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

And, of course, the cake was yummy! And mom said “Delicious!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend’s cooking projects from my collection of recipes included more chocolate buttecrunch, more bran muffins, and the subject of this post, plain cake, with the addition of a lemon sauce as an experiment. I came about to learning to make plain cake from scratch after I attempted to make a New York crumble cake … <\/p>\n

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