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Hot Milk Cake

If you like the smell of hot milk, this hot milk cake (aka great depression cake) will please you. With basic pantry ingredients, you can enjoy a vanilla scented sponge cake.

Prep Time
25 mins
Cook Time
25 mins
Total Time
55 mins
Servings: 8
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American

Ingredients

  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 1 cup milk
  • 2 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 tsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 4 eggs room temperature
  • 1-1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 tsp vanilla paste or extract
  • powdered sugar to sprinkle
  • fresh berries and whipped cream to garnish optional

Instructions

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  1. Preheat the oven to 350˚F. Grease and flour 8 mini bunt pans or a (10-cup) large bunt pan.
  2. Put butter and milk in a small sauce pan and leave it over low heat until scalding hot
  3. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt; set aside.
  4. Beat eggs on high speed in a electric mixer with a whisk attachment. Gradually add the sugar a little bit at a time. Add the vanilla and mix until the eggs turns to pale yellow, about 4-5 mimutes.
  5. Add the dry ingredients to the eggs and fold together gently.
  6. Pour the scalding hot milk to the cake batter and stir them gently.
  7. Pour the batter to the and and bake in the preheated oven. 25-30 minutes for mini bundt pans or 45-60 minutes for a large bundt pan.
  8. Rest the cake in the pan for 10 minutes. Take out the cake from the pan and transfer to a cooling rack. Cool completely.
  9. Sprinkle with a little bit of powdered sugar. Garnish with fresh berries and serve with whipped cream if you wish.