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Plain cake

This is a classic, loaf-shaped cake, deliberately left plain for you to embellish as you choose.

54K 17 3.6

Last modified on: December 30^th 2019

Keywords for this recipe:Cake Loaf shaped Classical

For 1 cake, you will need:

0 150 g egg ( How to... )
1 125 g butter
2 110 g caster sugar
3 15 g Vanilla sugar
4 160 g flour
5 10 g baking powder
Total weight: 570 grams

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Resting	Cooking	Start to finish
21 min.	30 min.	35 min.	1 hour 26 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 4 min.

Allow ingredients to come to room temperature

Take the butter out of the fridge at least 1 hour beforehand.

Break the eggs then weigh 125 g butter carefully; this is important for the rest of the recipe. Put into a bowl and leave at room temperature for at least 1 hour.

Stage 2 - 3 min.

Make the cake batter

Put into a food-mixer bowl: 125 g butter (cut into small pieces), 110 g caster sugar and 15 g Vanilla sugar.

Stage 3 - 5 min.

Start beating and mix the sugar and butter thoroughly.

Stage 4 - 3 min.

Add the eggs one at a time...

Stage 5 - 2 min.

...and beat until the mixture is smooth.

Important: If the mixture begins to curdle, stop beating and plunge the bowl into a pan of hot water, beating with a hand whisk until the mixture homogenizes (normally about 1 minute).

Stage 6 - 2 min.

Sieve 160 g flour and 10 g baking powder together.

Stage 7 - 30 min.

Mix into the batter with whisk.

Refrigerate the batter for 30 minutes.

Stage 8 - 2 min.

Bake the cake

Preheat the oven to 390°F (200°C).

Pour the batter into the mould or tin.

Stage 9 - 35 min.

Bake for 30 to 40 minutes. Test the centre of the cake to check that it is cooked .

Remarks

If you want to include dry fruit, chocolate chips, etc., add these at stage 6, mixed with the flour.

Keeping

Several days.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,172 Kcal or 9,094 Kj	34 gr	245 gr	122 gr
109 %	13 %	23 %	19 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
381 Kcal or 1,595 Kj	6 gr	43 gr	21 gr
19 %	2 %	4 %	3 %

Per cake
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,172 Kcal or 9,094 Kj	34 gr	245 gr	122 gr
109 %	13 %	23 %	19 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 1 cake : 2.06 €

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Source

Based on recipe by Gaston Lenôtre.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Flour: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Coq au vin, Little lemon biscuits, Pink Reims biscuits, Fillet of beef in a rosemary crust, Grandma Solange's biscuits, ... All
	Egg: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chestnut Fudge Cupcakes, Baked eggs with chicken and spinach, Traditional nutty choc-chip cookies, Gâteau Nantais, Lime meringue tart, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Foie gras fingers, Surprise bread, Langoustine gratin, Pan-fried cheese, egg and spinach toastie, Tatin apples with mascarpone cream, ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Caramelised walnuts, Basic cake batter - the French way, Cornmeal baps for Anne, French Family Cake, Gâteau Basque , ... All

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