Sand Cake
- Ready In:
- 1hr
- Ingredients:
- 13
- Yields:
-
1 cake
- Serves:
- 8-12
ingredients
- 1⁄2 lb unsalted butter, softened, plus a little more for greasing the pan
- 1⁄2 cup fresh breadcrumb
- 1 3⁄4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1⁄4 cup cornstarch
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 2 teaspoons ground cardamom
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1 cup sugar
- 4 eggs
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
directions
- Preheat the oven to 350*. Butter an 8- or 9- inch tube pan and sprinkle with bread crumbs; invert pan over the sink to remove excess crumbs.
- Sift together the flour, cornstarch, baking powder, salt, and spices and set aside. Use an electric mixer to cream the butter with the sugar until light and fluffy, 5 minutes or so. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating until well blended. Add the vanilla and beat another 30 seconds.
- Add the dry ingredients all at once; mix by hand only until they are well incorporated. Pour and scrape the batter into the prepared pan. Bake 45 minutes before checking; the cake is done when it is golden brown and a toothpick inserted in its center comes out clean.
- Remove the cake from the oven and let it rest for a couple of minutes. Run a knife between cake and pan, cover the pan with a rack, and invert the rack and pan. Cool before serving, plain, with whipped cream, or sprinkled with confectioners' sugar.
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