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Vanilla sponge cake / Hot milk cake 

We are going on a five day trip to Bhubhneshwar, Puri and Konark and a few more places around. I always like to carry a few home made snacks , but today I was down with a bad cold so did not have much energy to make much but I did manage a “hot milk cake” which I had been wanting to try for a long time.

In American measurement cups of 250 ml :

1.    2 cups powdered sugar

2.     2 ¼ cups flour

3.     1 ¼ cup milk

4.     10 level tablespoons salted butter

5.     2 ¼ teaspoons baking powder

6.     1 teaspoon vanilla essence
7.   4 eggs

Method:

1.    Beat the eggs and the powdered sugar with a egg beater ( yes, you have to use one here) for about a minute till creamy and almost  three times in volume.

2.    Warm the milk and the butter till butter melts but do not let it boil, just warming is enough.

3.    Sift the flour with the baking powder and then gradually fold in to the beaten eggs, don’t beat at this stage , just softly fold in the flour.

4.    Slowly add the hot milk into the batter and stir with a wooden spoon or the silicon spatula .

5.    Now the quantity of the cake is quite a bit so I would suggest that you take a ring shaped eight and a half in diameter and about four inches deep baking tin or a  ten inch diameter round tin.

6.    Bake at 180° for about 50 minutes.