Today in things I had not heard of until today- the South Buffalo Cake. Who knew that there was a cake named after a neighborhood here in the 716. I don’t know what makes this particular cake so special to South Buffalo (to play along with stereotypes there is nothing Irish about it). I was only able to find two other hits with the name of this recipe- one (with a chocolate glaze) was on another recipe website and the other was someone asking about it.
One of the key things to remember when doing baking is to use the correct type of flour for the recipe. Cake flour (which is what is called for in this recipe) has a lower protein content (10%) than all-purpose (King Arthur is 11.7%) and bread flour (King Arthur is 12.7%)
South Buffalo Cake
Ingredients
- 5 eggs
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 tsp baking powder
- ½ tsp salt
- 2 cups cake flour
- 1 cup water
- 1 tsp vanilla
Instructions
- Separate eggs.
- Beat whites until stiff and fine grained, then gradually beat in 1 cup sugar.
- Beat yolks until very light and to yolks add the second cup of sugar and the vanilla.
- Sift flour, baking powder, and salt, add to yolks alternatively with the water, continue to beat.
- Fold in egg whites and mix carefully.
- Pour into ungreased cake pan.
- Bake in a 350° oven for about 1 hour, then turn heat off and continue to bake for about 15 minutes more.
- Remove from oven, invert and let hang until nearly cool, then loosen and pull from pan.