[We hope you tried her fancy cake for Shavuos. We did and it
was all it promised to be.]
For the tray of an average Israeli double oven, approximately
16" by 14".
In one bowl, mix together:
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups oil
6 eggs
1 1/2 cups water or juice
2 teaspoons vanilla
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In a different bowl, mix together:
4 1/2 cups of flour (I use whole wheat flour for two of the
cups but that's optional)
smidgen of salt
4 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
Slowly stir the dry ingredients into the liquid
ingredients.
Preheat over at 325 F. and bake for 40 minutes or until a
toothpick comes out dry.
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VARIATIONS:
1) To make a light chocolate cake, mix in 3 teaspoons of
cocoa to dry ingredients.
2) To make a marble cake, pour half of the batter into the
pan and add 3 teaspoons of cocoa to the other half, mix and
then `knife' through the white batter.
3) To make a spice cake, add to the dry ingredients any or
all of these spices: cinnamon, ginger, cloves, nutmeg.
4) You can drop chocolate chips into any variation.
5) You can sprinkle coconut plus sugar for a crusty top on
any variation or you can substitute rum extract instead of
vanilla.
6) You can add a coarsely grated apple plus some cinnamon to
white batter.
Or simply enjoy the cake white! Enjoy!
