Hot milk cake is a

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sponge cake Sponge cake is a light cake made with egg whites, flour and sugar, sometimes leavened with baking powder. Some sponge cakes do not contain egg yolks, like angel food cake, but most of them do. Sponge cakes, leavened with beaten eggs, originated ...

from

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. It can be made as a

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or a

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, or baked in a

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. The hot milk and butter give the cake a distinctive fine-grained texture, similar to

pound cake Pound cake is a type of cake traditionally made with a pound of each of four ingredients: flour, butter, eggs, and sugar. Pound cakes are generally baked in either a loaf pan or a Bundt mold. They are sometimes served either dusted with powd ...

. Hot milk cake gets its distinctive flavor from the

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that is the liquid component of the batter. It differs from traditional sponge cakes like

angel food cake Angel food cake, or angel cake, is a type of sponge cake made with egg whites, flour, and sugar. A whipping agent, such as cream of tartar, is commonly added. It differs from other cakes because it uses no butter. Its aerated texture comes from w ...

in that it contains baking powder as leavening instead of just egg whites, so it can be made with butter like a

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. The eggs are beaten together whole instead of whipped as yolks and whites separately.

Preparation

Eggs are creamed with sugar, then flour is added. The milk is heated with butter until the butter has melted. This hot milk-butter mixture is poured into the batter all at once. The batter is mixed until it cools. Baking powder and vanilla flavor are added at the last stage before the cake is baked. This method gives the cake a fine-grained texture that is more similar to pound cake than traditional egg-leavened sponge cakes.

History

A simple recipe from 1911 is made with sugar, eggs, flour, salt, baking powder and hot milk, with optional ingredients of chocolate, nuts or coconut. A recipe from Ruth Ellen Church, a former food editor for the Chicago Tribune who sometimes wrote under the pen name Mary Meade was published in 1955. It has mocha-flavored icing, and is moist and delicate. It is served every year since 1991 at the Anne Arundel County Historical Society's annual Strawberry Festival at

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