Basic cake batter - the French way

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 550 g, you will need:

• 1 40 g butter
• 2 120 g Egg  ( How to... )
• 3 150 g caster sugar
• 4 80 g cream
• 5 120 g flour
• 6 2 g baking powder
• 7 2 pinches salt
• Total weight: 515 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
10 min.	7 min.	20 min.

Step by step recipe

• 1: Melt 40 g butter in a small pan on low heat.
  Bring to the boil, then wait until it stops boiling and begins to give off a nutty smell (you have just made noisette butter).
  Take off the heat and leave to cool until just warm.
• 2: Mix 120 g Egg and 150 g caster sugar in a bowl with a whisk.
• 3: Add 80 g cream...
• 4: ...and mix again.
• 5: Sieve 120 g flour, 2 g baking powder and 2 pinches salt together into the mixture.
• 6: Mix again.
• 7: Pour the warm noisette butter into the mixture through a fine strainer.
• 8: Mix one last time.
• 9: Your cake batter is ready.
  You can now add your chosen flavourings (chocolate, pistachio, lemon...), or leave it plain, before pouring it into the tins or moulds.
• 10: If you want to make a plain cake straight away, pour the dough into a mold and bake for about 40 minutes at 390°F (200°C).

Remarks

If you are using salted butter, omit the pinches of salt.
For a plain cake, you can use replace half an ounce (10 g) of the sugar with vanilla sugar.

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