Hot milk cake

Hot milk cake is a butter sponge cake from American cuisine. It can be made as a sheet cake or a layer cake, or baked in a tube pan. The hot milk and butter give the cake a distinctive fine-grained texture, similar to pound cake. Hot milk cake gets its distinctive flavor from the scalded milk that is the liquid component of the batter. It differs from traditional sponge cakes, such as angel food cake or genoise, in that it contains baking powder as leavening instead of just egg whites, so it can be made with butter like a Victoria sponge. The eggs are beaten together whole instead of whipped as yolks and whites separately. 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, and the batter is mixed until it cools. The heat begins cooking the eggs while the cake it being mixed.

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