HOT MILK SPONGE CAKE

HOT MILK SPONGE CAKE

MAKES: 12 TO 16 SERVINGS
PREP: 60 TO 65 MINUTES
BAKE: 18 TO 22 MINUTES

INGREDIENTS:

• LEMON FILLING
• 1 cup refined sugar
• 4 tablespoons general flour
• ⅛ teaspoon salt
• 2 massive egg yolks
• 1½ cups water
• ¼ cup recent juice (from one massive lemon)
• 1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
• 1 tablespoon butter
• CAKE
• Butter and flour for prepping the pans
• 4 massive eggs, at the temperature
• 2 cups refined sugar
• 2 cups and one tablespoon general flour, divided use
• 1 cup milk
• ½ cup (1 stick) tasteless butter
• 1 tablespoon leaven
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon flavourer
• ½ teaspoon flavourer
• Boiled White Icing

METHOD:

1. For the lemon filling, place the sugar, flour, and salt in an exceedingly medium-size cooking pan, and stir to mix. Beat the egg yolks with the water and juice and whisk into the dry ingredients. Stir and cook over medium-high heat till the mixture involves a boil, then cut back the warmth to medium and whisk and cook for two minutes a lot of. take away the pan from the warmth, and whisk within the zest and butter. Pour the filling into a bowl, and canopy with wrapping. Chill within the icebox till it's thick and spreadable, concerning three hours.
2. For the cake, place a rack within the center of the kitchen appliance, and heat the kitchen appliance to 350°F. gently grease and flour 3 9" cake pans, and shake out the surplus flour. Set the pans aside.
3. Crack the eggs into an outsized bowl, and beat with an electric mixer on medium speed for thirty seconds to mix. bit by bit add the sugar whereas beating till downy, two to three minutes a lot of. Set the mixture aside.
4. Sift the two cups of flour doubly, and so increase the egg mixture a bit at a time, beating on low speed till simply combined thirty to forty-five seconds.
5. Place the milk and butter in an exceedingly medium-size cooking pan over medium-high heat. Stir until the butter melts and also the mixture comes simply to a boil, concerning four minutes. Slowly pour the butter and milk into the batter whereas beating on medium speed till sleek, three to four minutes. The batter is going to be skinny. Sift the remaining one tablespoon flour with the leaven and salt, and beat on low speed into the batter with the vanilla and flavourer till simply combined 1 minute. Divide the batter between the ready pans, and place the pans within the kitchen appliance. If your kitchen appliance isn't massive enough to position three pans on one rack, place two on the middle rack, and place one pan on the rack on top of, looking at to create certain the cake doesn't overbake.
6. Bake the cake till it's gently golden brown, eighteen to twenty-two minutes. take away the layers from the kitchen appliance, and place them on wire racks to chill for ten minutes. Run a knife around the edges of the pans, provide the pans a delicate shake, and invert the cakes once and so once more in order that they rest right aspect informed the racks to fully cool, 30 minutes.
7. To assemble the cake, place one layer on a cake plate or platter and unfold half the filling to inside ½" of the perimeters. high with a second layer, and unfold with the opposite half the filling. Place the third layer on high. Place these layers and filling into the icebox to sit back for half-hour.
8. While the cake is chilling, create the icing.
9. To finish the assembly, take away the cake from the icebox, and frost the highest and sides of the cake. Slice and serve.

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