Boiled Milk Cake

Boiled Milk Cake

This is a recipe for Boiled Milk Cake: milk is boiled with butter, and the eggs are beaten with sugar, oil, and vanilla. Then flour mixed with baking powder and salt is added, followed by the boiled milk poured in gradually. The batter is baked in a preheated oven at 170°C with bottom heat only for about 45 minutes. The description is the most reliable reference for the quantities, with slight differences in the sugar, salt, and type of vanilla between the description and the chef’s instructions.

A soft cake made with boiled milk.

Like a simple homemade sponge cake with milk.

Whisk the batter well for a light crumb and avoid overmixing.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups (270 g) Flour
  • 4 eggs, at room temperature Eggs
  • 1 cup (200 g) Sugar
  • 1 cup (200 ml) Milk
  • half a cup (100 ml) Vegetable oil
  • 80 g Butter
  • 1 tablespoon (10 g) Baking powder
  • 1 tablespoon Vanilla
  • a pinch Salt
  • 1¼ cups Sugar
  • 1 tablespoon Liquid vanilla
  • 1 tablespoon Vanilla powder
  • ¼ teaspoon Salt

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven with bottom heat only to 170°C, 15 minutes before baking.
  2. Place the butter and milk in a saucepan over low heat until they boil.
  3. In a mixing bowl, combine the room-temperature eggs with the sugar, oil, and vanilla, then beat until the sugar dissolves and the mixture becomes pale in color.
  4. In another bowl, mix the flour with the baking powder and salt.
  5. Sift the dry flour mixture over the egg mixture in the mixing bowl.
  6. Stir until the flour lumps disappear and the batter is thick and smooth.
  7. Add the boiling milk and butter to the mixing bowl in stages, stirring gradually.
  8. Grease the cake pan with butter, then dust it with flour.
  9. Pour the cake batter into the cake pan.
  10. Tap the cake pan on the work surface for two minutes to release the bubbles.
  11. Place the cake pan on the middle rack of the oven at 170°C with bottom heat only for 45 minutes. It may need a few extra minutes, until the top is golden and the cake is cooked through.
  12. Remove the cake pan from the oven and let the cake cool.
  13. Loosen the edges of the cake from the pan, then invert it onto a serving plate.
  14. Slice the cake with a knife to serve.

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