Why does it work
- The egg is whisper until they are yellow, thick, and double in the volume, producing a strong and stable foam that will not be impure, resulting in a light, ventilated cake.
- Taping the batsman before baking ends large air bubbles, resulting in a single piece.
- Brown the butter for coconut topping provides a rich, walnut taste that complements the sweetness of dark brown sugar.
Every Sunday, I bake a cake to eat throughout the week. It lives at our kitchen counter, ready for me, to mourn my family and unexpected guests. Typically, baked good is like a snacking cake Banana bread Or coffee cakeRecently, however, I have been killing a lazy daisy cake, with a sponge cake with a mixture of melted butter, brown sugar, and sweet chopped coconut.
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Lazy Daisy Cake is a retro dessert of the 1930s. I first came to the General Mills Book of 1942 many years ago Betty Croker Cook Book of All Purpose BakingWhere it was given the title “Busy-Din Cake”. The book notes that it is “sometimes called lazy daisy cake or emergency cake”, which made me a chakli.
The version of Betty Croker asks to put flour, sugar, salt, and baking powder in a bowl, then beaten in small, milk, egg and “taste”. After the cake is ripe, the recipe instructs the readers to hold it on top with melted butter, brown sugar, cream, and chopped nuts or chopped coconut’s “browled icing”. Eager to learn more about this cake, I poke around the Internet and pigeons in the old issues of various newspapers, and I came to know that the cake was quite popular in the 1930s and 1940s. Unlike the version in the Betty Croker Book, which was made by creaming butter and sugar, used several lazy daisy cake dishes Hot milk cake As a base, which is made by adding warm milk and the butter is melted in whipping eggs.
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In edition of January 9, 1939 Tulsa TribuneThe author Betty called one of his favorite cake one. “In those days when there is no dessert in the house and you do not have much time, this recipe will just be filled in the dandy because it can be mixed in only a few minutes,” she notes, she notes, saying that there is no need to worry about creaming materials and does not wait for it to cool before cooling the cake. “If you have not already made a habit of lazy daisy on lazy days, then your chance is here.” The rendering of the cake uses a hot milk cake as its base and asks to serve the cake immediately after spreading coconut icing – no browing is required.
As with many cute dishes, lazy daisy cake has many refers. Some people make sponges by applying cream to butter and sugar together before adding eggs and dry ingredients, and some people dump all cake materials in a bowl and do not whisk as a batsman. The most common version of the cake, however, is a warm milk cake that once ripened with a mixture of coconut, then the topping is broile until the golden brown. It is notablely similar to the popular Danish drugse (“Dream Cake” in Danish). It is not clear that both are related, but I will bet that they are.
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In my recipe below, I use a warm milk cake as the base. It is extremely simple to make and almost impossible to mess: To make it, you simply whisk the whole egg with sugar until they are yellow, fluffy, and volumes in the volume, then add warm milk and butter to a mixture, and finally add dry ingredients until you have a harmonious batsman.
This will not be a lazy daisy cake without coconut topping, so I definitely included in my recipe, with a minor turn Brown butter Before whispering in brown sugar, milk and salt, then sweet chopped coconut. Brown butter topping is rich, walnut notes that complement the taste of brown sugar jaggery, and a little salt helps to make it round.
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Many traditional lazy daisy cakes ask to bake the cake, then topping and brills it. In my trial, however, I found that cooking the topping was a more reliable way than browling, and consequently there was a crisp coconut crust that was equally brown – not each time. Therefore, instead of dolling the coconut mixture on the cake at the end, I carefully spread it on the cake half the path through baking. As soon as the cake continues to cook, coconut carries the carmelies, becomes satisfactorily crisp and chewing.
It is an amazing easy cake that takes only 10 minutes of active time to present. The cake is well moist and can be placed in an airtight container for five days – but if your neighbors, friends, and family like it as much as I do, some tell me that the cake will go on in a few hours.
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Unusual techniques that make it “forget” retro cake tender, easy and delicious
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For cake:
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non stick cooking spray
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57 Yes unsalted butter ,2 Ounce, 4 spoon,
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3/4 cup ,180 ml, whole milk
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4 Big Eggs ,7 Ounce, 200 Yes,
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300 Yes granulated sugar ,10 1/2 Ounce, 1 1/2 cup,
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192 Yes all purpose flour ,6 3/4 Ounce, 1 1/2 cup), More for plus dusting
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1 1/2 spoon baking powder
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1 small spoon Diamond Crystal Kosher SaltFor table salt, use half from volume
For topping:
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85 Yes unsalted butter ,3 Ounce, 6 spoon,
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107 Yes dark brown sugar ,3 1/4 Ounce, 1/2 cup,
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1/4 small spoon Diamond Crystal Kosher SaltFor table salt, use half from volume
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1/4 cup ,60 ml, whole milk
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198 Yes Sweet chopped coconut ,7 OunceAbout this 2 1/3 cup,
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Adjust the oven rack to the middle position and preheat at 350 ° F (180 ° C). A 9– 13-inch baking pan with unsalted butter, then dust with flour, excess shaking.
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In a medium saucepan, mix butter and whole milk. Bring a gentle boil on medium-less heat; Set aside and let it cool slightly, about 5 minutes.
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In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking powder and salt together; Cancel.
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In a bowl of stand mixer fitted with whisk attachment, whip eggs and granular sugar at medium-high speed until the yolk is thick, yellow yellow and not doubled in quantity, about 7 minutes.
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Reduce the speed of the mixer, and gently pour into a mixture of milk and butter. Reserve saucepan for topping; There is no need to clean. Continue the whisk until it is combined for about 15 seconds.
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With a mixer at low speed, add 1/4 cup of flour mixture at a time until only 2 minutes is included. Using a flexible spatula, to scrape the bottom and under the bowl to ensure that there are no dry bits. ,
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By the time the cake has increased to about 1 inch and is light golden for about 25 minutes.
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Meanwhile, for coconut topping: Melt and cook, whisper and rotate on medium heat, until the solid golden golden brown and the walnut smells from the butter nuts, 4 to 5 minutes. Reduce low heat. Whisk in brown sugar, salt and milk and boil one, stirring continuously until sugar dissolves, 2 to 3 minutes. (The mixture will give a little spit – this is normal.) Remove from heat and bend in coconut; Cancel.
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Remove the cake from the oven carefully and to spread the topping topping on it, using a spoon or offset spatula to spread equally from the side. Bake to coconut topping, golden brown, 20 to 25 and minutes.
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Special equipment
9- 13 inch baking pan, stand mixer, flexible spatula, whiskey
Make-forward and storage
Once cooled, the cake can be stored in an airtight container at room temperature for 5 days.