What is an egg cake?
Egg Cake is a cake with a high proportion of eggs in ingredients. While most cake recipes require eggs as binders in the cake, egg cakes use a large number of eggs, creating a very damp, rich cake with light texture. Recipes for egg cakes are usually very simple, often contain only eggs, butter, flour, sugar, salt, aroma and sometimes gluten like a baking powder and these cakes are easy to whip, making them excellent spontaneous baking projects.
eggs are used for various reasons. They primarily act as binders and attract ingredients together. The eggs also add attic and volume to the cake, because people who tried to make cakes without eggs they could have seen. Because eggs are rich in themselves, they can also make a cake richer and damp, improve and intensify the taste. The egg yolks are defeated by butter and sugar in front of flour and the pound is added and the whites are whipped to soft peaks before they are folded into the dough. This adds even more attic to dortu and creates a very light texture that many people consider to be pleasant. For a thicker version of the egg cake, the eggs will be generally defeated. Buttermilk or milk can be added for greater humidity.
These cakes often have a yellow shade due to the high egg content, although it is also possible to produce a white cake by reducing or eliminating egg yolks. Tluted like vanilla, almonds and orange can be used in egg cakes, along with chocolate or marble whirling. One great thing on the egg cake is that it tends to be extremely flexible, which means that chefs can play with flavors without having to care for the destruction of the cake.
Many egg recipes have "eggs" in the name of the "x egg cake" in the name of the "x egg cake", with x being the number of eggs in Recipe. These cakes can also be called "lighting cakes" or "1-2-3-4 cakes", referring to the proportions of butter, sugar, flour and eggs in the recipe. TOReative bakers sometimes like to make Easter egg cakes, oval cakes eggs that are decorated to look like Easter eggs.
Most egg cakes are presented with icing, with the top of the cream. The icing can also be decorated, with an ordinary color it is used for the base, while on the cake there are shapes such as flowers and beliefs. Egg cakes can also be glazed for a more sophisticated view of the icing.