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WHIPPED CREAM CAKE

INGREDIENTS

• Cake flour - 3/4 cup
• Sugar - 1/2 cup
• Butter - 1 1/2 tbsp
• Milk - 1 tbsp
• Vanilla extract - 2 tsp
• Egg - 3
• Salt - 1/4 tsp

METHOD

1. Preheat the oven to 180 C at least 20 minutes before. 
2. Put butter and milk In a small bowl and microwave until the butter melts.
3. Sift the cake flour 2 times. Set aside.
   
4. In a bowl of a stand mixer, add eggs and sugar. Over a double boiler (placing the bowl over a pot with simmering water on low heat), whisk the egg mixture until it becomes lukewarm (until the sugar dissolves). 
   
5. Then set the bowl on the stand mixer, and whip the egg mixture until very thick as shown in the picture.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
6. Add vanilla and mix.
7. Add sifted cake flour in 3 parts. 
   
8. Fold in the first one-third of the flour by hand with a spatula (not with the mixer). After the flour is incorporated, add the next part of flour and again fold in with the spatula. Repeat.
   
9. Next, add the mixture of melted butter and milk and fold in with the spatula.
10. Put the batter in the prepared pan. Bake for 20-25 minutes.
    
11. Take the cake out from the oven and leave for 15 minutes. Finally, remove the cake from the cake pan.
    
12. Remove the top layer.
    
13. Cut the cake into two horizontally into equal parts and apply whipped cream evenly on top of two parts. (Whipped cream recipe)
    
    
14. Place one above another and decorate as you wish.
    

TIPS:

• Sift the flour thrice for better consistency.
• Beat eggs well as shown in the picture above to avoid lumps.