A slice of the Basque Cake I made today :)
A Basque Cake is technically an unsliced pound cake with pastry cream in the middle… I’m not much a fan of traditional pound cake, but my Basque Cake turned out to be quite delicious. The Pastry cream helps with the dryness and dense structure of pound cake.
Do you know how pound cake got its name?
Because the traditional recipe is made of 1 lb. of each of the main cake ingredients:
- 1 lb. butter, 1 lb. sugar, 1 lb. flour, 1 lb. eggs.
More modern recipes will add baking powder to help leaven the cake, salt and vanilla to help with flavor
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