Orange and Coffee Egg White Pound Cake

Happy thanksgiving everyone! I am sure most of you enjoyed the family gathering and the turkey! Our family is less traditional and believe it or not we skipped turkey tonight, and ate  a very soft roast beef instead that took as long as turkey to cook too haha. Thanks for having us for thanksgiving dinner: we went home with a happy stomach and a warm feeling.

I must apologize to you all that the cranberry chicken wings post is delayed. It’s coming...soon..after all the goodies buzz that I am about to tell you.

Orange Coffee Egg White Cake

Thanksgiving dinner could be very tricky when it comes to “what to bring”, especially when you know everybody cooks and chance are main foods will be so filling you can even move on to dessert. As predicted, that happened today: food was so good that we could easily hibernate after lunch. This year, we are a little smarter though; we decided to walk it off before we continue to indulge our sweet frienemies! We went for a stroll in the neighbourhood and a close by Erin mills parkway, where the changing colour is just gorgeous! Oddly enough we ended our little exercise at a serene St. Peter Cemetery, in an uphill church, where we accidently found the late Oscar Peterson memorial stone. That was the first time I ever wondered in a cemetery for recreational purposes. Should I feel weird?

Anyhow, yesterday when I was browsing for egg white cake recipe, I stumbled upon Lily’s blog and thought her recipe is brilliant for a light tasting cake. So working with the basic proportion of her recipe, with a little modification ( I made orange and coffee cake instead of the lemon poppyseed, and cut down the proportion of the flour to make the cake fluffier), the cake turned really amazing! You must try it its so easy to do!

Firm beaten egg whites

How to:

Heat 150 grams of butter in a pan until its melting and let it cool

In a mix bowl, whisk 8  room temperature large egg whites on high speed (depending on your mixer my kitchen aid takes about 5-6 minutes on number 9 to create a foamy and thick egg whites. Add 3 Tbsp of sugar and continue to whisk until its pale, foamy and stay still.

Mean while mix in a bowl, 200mL of sugar with 8tbsp of cornstarch,1 cup of all purpose flour,  2 tsp of baking soda, 2tbsp of instant coffee,  and 2 tbsp of milk powder,1 tbsp of orange rinds, ½ tsp of salt.

After the egg white foam is ready, fold in a third of the flour mixture each time

Once it is mixed well, pour in the cooled butter slowly into the mixture.

Cool slightly and dress the cake with orange marmalade jam, or simply dust some icing coffee, icing sugar, and orange rinds!


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