Dinner DeeAs Dessert Week recipe: Puerto Rican Cake

Our dessert week is in full swing in the present day as we’re baking with The Cake Lady herself, Chef Kristina Lavallee. She’s sharing a recipe for a Bizcocho Mojadito- in any other case often called a Puerto Rican Cake with Cream Cheese. 

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Puerto Rican Cake

Substances

• 6 cups self-rising flour
• 4 cups granulated sugar
• 4 sticks salted butter
• 8 giant eggs (yolks and whites separated)
• 2 cups milk
• 4 tbsp almond extract or emulsion

Easy Syrup

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350° F.
2. In mixer, cream butter and sugar collectively at excessive velocity till very smooth and pale, 12–quarter-hour. Scrape down sides midway by.
3. At low velocity, add egg yolks little by little till properly integrated. Add almond extract and blend for 1 minute at medium velocity.
4. At low velocity, add flour alternating with milk.
5. In separate mixer bowl, beat egg whites till stiff.
6. Fold egg whites into cake combination.
7. Spray pans with nonstick baking spray and add accomplished batter.
8. Bake for 45 minutes to 1 hour.

Easy Syrup

1. Boil water with sugar for 10 minutes.
2. Let cool for five minutes.

Notes

• When cake has cooled for 10–quarter-hour, leaving cake in pan, moist cake with easy syrup in round movement. Use 1 to 1½ cups syrup per pan.

Cream Cheese Frosting

Substances

• 1 lb cream cheese
• 1 lb salted butter
• 4 lbs powdered sugar (sifted)
• 2 tbsp vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Mix salted butter and cream cheese in mixing bowl; begin on low velocity till integrated.
2. Beat on medium velocity for 10 minutes.
3. Utilizing long-handled spatula, scrape all sides and backside of bowl completely.
4. Combine once more on medium velocity for 10 minutes till fluffy.
5. Add powdered sugar little by little (one scoop at a time) on low velocity after every scoop.
6. Add vanilla extract and blend on low velocity for two minutes.

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