Description
This is a part of the Buche de Noel Recipe. It is used in many other classic cake recipes as well.
Yield
1 cake
Preparation time
1 hour
Ingredients
6 Eggs (at room temperature)
1 c Sugar
1⁄2 c Clarified Butter (at room temperature)
1 t Vanilla extract
1 c Cake Flour (sifted)
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350. Grease and flour a jelly-roll pan.
- Whip the eggs and sugar for 15 minutes, or until tripled in volume.
- Add the vanilla, then the butter and flour in equal parts at slow speed until well combined. Try to keep the volume high.
- Pour into buttered, floured jelly roll pan and bake until done, about 25 minutes (but pay attention!)
- Turn out onto an impeccably clean linen towel and dust with confectioner's sugar.