Sugee Cake Recipe Award Winning Recipe 365

Steps:

• 1. Sift dry ingredients. 2. Separate the egg whites from the yolks and beat the yolks. 3. Cream the butter and sugar. Slowly whisk in the yolks. 4. Stir in the plain flour, baking powder and semolina with milk. When mixing in the ingredients. 5. Alternate each ingredient until the measured ingredients are over. Then fold in the almonds into the mixture. 6. Whisk egg whites till stiff. Then fold the egg whites into the mixture. 7. Add vanilla essence and pour mixture into a greased baking tin (18-20 cm square). 8. Bake over moderate heat for 40 minutes till cooked. (Stick a toothpick in the middle and other sections of the cake. If it comes out dry, the cake is done.)

Steps:

• Cream butter and 120g sugar for 1 minute in a mixer. Add milk and semolina flour. Mix well. Set aside covered for an hour (to allow semolina to absorb moisture).
• Preheat oven till 180 degrees Celsius (350 degrees F). Grease sides and bottom of 7-inch round cake tin. Line bottom of tin with paper.
• Beat eggs and yolks in a mixer till frothy. Add 120g sugar slowly. Beat for 5 minutes. Add vanilla essence and stir.
• Sift flour, baking powder and salt. Add ground almonds and chopped almonds. Mix well.
• Add 1/2 of egg mixture to butter mixture. Fold gently. Then add 1/2 of flour mixture to butter mixture and fold. Repeat above step. Do not overmix or the cake will turn out densely textured.
• Pour mixture into cake tin and bake for 45 minutes.
• Allow cake to cool for 10 minutes before removing from tin.
• Recipe Notes: If the top part of the cake starts to burn during baking, remove it from the oven after 35 minutes, cover the top of the cake with aluminium foil, then bake for another 10 minutes.