Recipe: Modern vanilla poundcake (Quatre quarts/Torta paradiso)
The poundcake, or 'quatre quarts' as they call it in French, is the traditional cake everyone is (or should be) able to make and is usually characterized by the simplicity of its ingredients: 1/4 butt
Keywords
- Cake
- Creamed butter
- Creaming method
- Egg yolks
- High-ratio cakes
- Iginio Massari
- Modern
- Poundcake
- Quatre quarts
- Torta paradiso
- Traditional
- Vanilla
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Ingredients
- Unsalted butter (room temperature)
- Powdered sugar
- Vanilla bean (split)
- Orange or lemon zest
- Egg yolks (~4)
- Salt
- Cornstarch
- Pastry flour
- Baking powder
- Eggs (~2.5 eggs)
- Granulated sugar
- Powdered sugar (for decoration)
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