Old recipes I have a ton of, as I have been cooking and baking for many moons already!
I started from a very young age, standing on my Ouma's kitchen chair, and asking for the 'decipe' before I could even read! Mom Lily and Ouma were excellent cooks, and the perfect role models; not just in the kitchen, I must add!
I will show you how to make 'Golden Cake', a rich sponge cake with a coconut meringue topping. The recipe is from an early-1970s recipe book, called Flop Proof Baking.
Before we get baking, I have to share a little story about this battered and bruised old recipe book.
𝙄 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝘾𝙤𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙪𝙩!
I was a learner draughtslady, (that's what my job title was back then) working for a small firm of Land Surveyors, and wanted to treat the office with cake for teatime.
Mom Lily was more into pastries, but I wanted to make a sponge cake, and found a recipe in her old recipe book, which eventually fell apart from over-use!
I cannot blame the recipe for the disaster that followed! I decided to add coconut, and more coconut, to the sponge batter!
The cake did not rise as I foolishly expected and felt a tad heavy, but I iced it, and proudly took it to the office.
When I started slicing the cake, it was not a light and fluffy sponge, but everyone was waiting for a slice of home-baked cake.
My old boss, Mr. Watt, a dear man with a wicked sense of humour, came through to the drawing office, pretended he was biting into the side plate, and told me he wasn't sure if he was biting into the cake or the plate ;)
I was mortified, my coconut sponge cake was a total flop!
𝙁𝙡𝙤𝙥-𝙋𝙧𝙤𝙤𝙛 𝘽𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜
Guess what Mrs. Watt gave me at my kitchen tea? (That's what we called a bridal shower back in 1974)
Yes, a recipe book called Flop Proof Baking, published by Stork, manufacturers of baking margarine!
I did end up making a delicious sponge cake with coconut, a recipe from that old book, and as I told you at the beginning, it was called...
𝙂𝙤𝙡𝙙𝙚𝙣 𝘾𝙖𝙠𝙚
𝙍𝙚𝙘𝙞𝙥𝙚
𝘚𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦 𝘐𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴
- 125 gram (Stork) Baking Margarine or Butter, softened
- 125ml Sugar
- 3 Egg yolks
- 250ml Cake Flour
- 10ml Baking Powder
- Good pinch of Salt
- 5ml Vanilla Essence
- 125ml Milk
𝘊𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘶𝘵 𝘔𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘶𝘦 𝘛𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘐𝘯𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴
- 3 Egg whites
- 125ml Sugar
- 250ml fine desiccated Coconut
𝙇𝙚𝙩'𝙨 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙗𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜!
Cream margarine or butter with sugar, add the egg yolks, beat till creamy.
Sift flour, baking powder & salt, add to the creamed mixture, alternately with milk & vanilla, then mix to a smooth batter.
Spoon dough into 20-23cm springform baking tin, smooth top.
Beat egg whites till stiff peaks form, add sugar & beat further.
Fold in coconut & spoon on top of dough.
Bake at 160°C for approx 40 - 50 min. Test with a skewer if the dough is cooked.
Carefully remove from pan & leave to cool on wire rack.
This has been my contribution to Qurator's: Hive Top Chef! | Old Recipes, I hope you enjoyed reading, and will possibly try out this flop-proof recipe for the Golden Cake from my 1974 Flop Proof Recipe Book;)
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A great story and a fool proof recipe that makes me drool. I'll do this someday, probably adding something chocolate to the sponge cake, or just add a chocolate sauce to it. I love coconut and chocolate!
Hi @owasco, I need to stop baking cakes and tarts, it's way too tempting! I'm sure coca would be a good addition in the sponge batter, and possibly in the meringue topping. I agree, chocolate and coconut are a great combo. If I were to do this, I would first mix the cocoa into the coconut before folding it into the meringue.
Share it with us if you get to make it. Years ago when we had the #cookwithus contest on the old blockchain, one of the organizers started a tag #myturn, which we'd use if we were re-creating one of the dishes from other entrees.
I hope you're keeping well @owasco 💖
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You may have flopped one cake in your life, but you continue making some amazing non flop items.
Hmmmnnn coconutty cake. What a dream. I couldn't make a sponge cake to save my life.😁
Haha @carolynstahl, it took a lot of baking before I got it right but this old book's recipes really were flop proof.
Not that I follow recipes too closely nowadays!
You'd be able to bake anything if you tried, but we all have our preferences, like my Mom who preferred working with pastry.
I'm curious whether aquafaba would work for the topping? I made meringues with it a long while back. If so, one could then turn this into a vegan cake.
The coconut flavour somehow seeps into the sponge layer, it's very good!
It's lovely seeing you here my friend 🧡
I did vegan meringues once with aquafaba. Guess what? It literally flopped 😂
Oh dear! Then you stick with the mains, I'll make the meringues😅
Simply delicious my son would say, not baking much in my home I have to say perhaps a flop-proof book when young 🙃
Not that I didn't bake which Mom gets away with that, it simply never became a passion...
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Hi Joan, I would say, photography (& now DIY) became your passion, right?
God gave us all our unique talents, likes, and dislikes, which makes the world go round, I would say!
Mr. & Mrs. Watt must have chuckled when she discovered that book just in time for my kitchen tea, as we called it back then😅
Thank goodness winter disappeared overnight, shew it was cold!
Have a wonderful day Joan❤️
PS thank you for the tip
Thank goodness we all different, I have never objected to working around the home fixing, repairing, gardening always plenty to do. Baking was not high on my priorities, simple fresh cooked meals at end of day no such thing as buying in food, treat was a meal at our local country club.
You baked for your kitchen tea, blow me over I would never have attempted that! !LOLZ
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Oh, nom-nom, yum-yum... Love it!
I love coconut! And I'm sure I'll be making a little mess too, trying to put more of this or that; it often happens to me with recipes that seem to allow easy modifications and/or substitutions 😏
This made my morning 🤣
Many moons to come, dear @lizelle ❤️ and cake!
Hi @marlyncabrera, thank you for the visit. Yep, we can mess with
drecipes, up to a point, right? Thankfully as we get to see more moons, and the years go by, we learn how to chop and change recipes successfully.Glad you had a good chuckle, have a wonderful day💖
Wow! This looks so delicious 😋
Good luck 👍
It was very good, but I must stop baking cakes or I'd end up the size of a house😅
Hehe
You are quite the pastry chef with your book 🤭! That book seems enchanted, it contains magical recipes 👁️👄👁️ magical and delicious cakes
Thank you @torbil, you're right, that book contains many baking secrets😉
Excellent recipe, looks gorgeous.
Thank you @arqyanedesings
Wow! it looks delicious, the coconut adds an excellent flavor and texture, a recipe to share with the family. the sponge cake looks great , if you don't mention it, I would never have guessed you had some baking failures, the book must have lovely recipes .
Cheers!
After several days, today appears before me this beautiful publication with an accompanying story, beautiful crockery and a cake that makes you bite into it. Although the magic touch is the book and the palette.
Beautiful all together.