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Baba's coffee birthday cake 2010

Desserts

Ingredients

  • 3-1/2 Cup Baking Flour - Bob's red mill GF
  • 2 T. Baking Powder
  • 1/2 t. Salt

Butter and Sugar

  • 1 Cup Butter (2 sticks)
  • 2-1/2 - 3 Cup Sugar, Trader Joe's organic

Wet Ingredients

  • 7 eggs, separated
  • 1-1/4 Cup Milk
  • 1 T. Vanillia Extract, Trader Joe's bourbon
  • 6 T. Coffee, decaf instant

Steps

  1. Makes 2-8-inch round pans plus 12 or less cupcakes
  2. Materials: Electric Beater
  3. Preheat oven to 375.
  4. Put the butter and sugar into a big mixing bowl and allow to come to room temperature.
  5. Sift the dry ingredients together with a sifter onto 2 dinner plates. 3 X
  6. Separate the eggs carefully, putting the whites into a small mixing bowl. Put the yolks in a large glass. You must not get even the smallest amount of yolk or fat into the whites. For this reason, separate each egg white into a tiny bowl or teacup, then dump it into the small mixing bowl only if the separation is successful. Contaminating the yolk with white is o.k.
  7. Line two round pans on the bottom only with parchment paper, or oil them
  8. Put liners into the cupcake tins, or oil them.
  9. Using perfectly clean beaters, beat the egg whites until stiff peaks form. Put aside.
  10. Cream together the Butter and the Sugar in the big mixing bowl with the electric beater.
  11. Add Egg yolks, Extracts, coffee and beat.
  12. Alternately add the Milk and the Dry ingredients. Add more milk if needed until you get a thick but not stiff batter.
  13. The tricky part begins. With a big spatula or spoon, gently transfer the beaten whites to the big bowl. If unbeaten whites remain, wash the beaters thoroughly and re-beat the rest. Dump them in.
  14. Using finesse, with a big spatula or spoon, gently but thoroughly fold in the beaten egg completely. You don't want to destroy the foam, but you want to incorporate it fully.
  15. With the spatula, put mixture into the pans and cups, about 2/3 full.
  16. Bake them until a toothpick can be removed cleanly. Don't jostle them while baking, or they may fall.
  17. Remove pans from oven and let them cool to room temperature.
  18. Frost with butter-cream frosting. Orange flavored is good.
  19. 2009 variation: Strawberry - use sweetened fruit instead of milk: leave out 1/2C sugar, leave out almond extract. Make strawberry frosting.