4/4 Cake Recipe

You know the expression : "it's a piece of cake!", meaning that's easy...

Well, this cake recipe is as easy as that... Although when my mother makes it, it is much more delicious and light than when I make it. This proves : skills are an important factor in making cakes : experience makes the master.

Beat the butter, sugar and egg yolks till a homogeneous light mixture. Sift the flour and slowly add to the batter, stirring constantly. In a separate bowl : beat the egg-white until very stiff. Preheat the oven on 170 C. With a spatula, slowly and carefully add the egg-white to the batter. Grease a mould with butter and dust some flour over it. (Our mould is 21cm diameter round) Fill the mould with the batter until 3/4th filled. Bake on 170 C for 45 minutes, or : stop baking when you put a knitting needle in the cake and nothing sticks on it. After baking : remove immediately out of the mould and cool the cake on a tray.