Question:Easy Coconut Macaroon Cake

[bellamalba]

Easy Coconut Macaroon Cake

How could you have a cake recipe without baking powder or baking soda? I followed the instructions and it was awful. How could you do that? and nobody is screening recipes? I just don't understand...this is really wrong. I shouldn't have trusted this recipe.

[Zeldaz]

Recipes are contributed by members. Eggs are the leavener in that cake, so no chemical leaveners are apparantly needed. There are many cake recipes which do not call for chemical leaveners; they are usually referred to as foam cakes.
This one received a five star review, which, of course, should always be taken with a grain of salt, as tastes differ.
Did you make any changes at all when you tried it? How, specifically, did it not meet your expectations?

[DEEP]

My assumption with this recipe would be that it calls for "self rising" flour I think that's a pretty safe assumption, too. Though my mother was born in 1930, I had probs with many of her recipes until I figured out that everything she cooked was with SR flour. Alas, she was a woman of the "new world", and all recipes fell into place.

Regards,
DEEp

[dunask]

BELLAMALBA:
Good afternoon. Sorry to learn of your recent baking disappointment. Bella, is there any chance that you baked this recipe in a round cake pan & not in a BUNDT pan?????
Bella this is a out of balance recipe. It requires it to be baked in a bundt or tube pan type because they are forgiving of out of balance cake recipes such as this recipe is
Bella, You can bake this recipe in a round normal pan but you must modify the amount of the ingredients somewhat

Good luck & enjoy the rest of the day young lady.

~DUNASK.

[Dee514]

This recipe works well as posted, it does not call for self rising flour because it is an egg leavened cake, and rises just fine when the recipe is properly followed. If you want a lighter (less dense) cake, you could sub sifted cake flour* for the all-purpose flour. (*note: cake flour is not self rising flour.)

[WhiteSnake]

Well Bella, its pretty easy and common to make a cake without baking powder or soda. They're called pound cakes. My mother's recipe doesn't use baking powder or baking soda and it comes out great, ( and has for over 60 years ) When baking anything a lot of factors come into play. Sifting the flour, the temperature in your kitchen, the temperature of your ingredients, the relative humidity that day, the actual temperature of your stove, the type of baking utensil that was used. I don't think that blasting any recipe without contacting the contributing chef first is wrong By contacting the contributing chef you can get first hand information on the recipe in question. Perhaps the contributing chef left out an ingredient by mistake and by contacting them, the recipe can be corrected.

[WhiteSnake]

As an update on this recipe. I made it last night and it turned out very well. The cake isn't as heavy as a pound cake and the almond taste is really good. The only two things I would change would be 1. put a frosting or a coconut topping on the cake ( just for looks) and 2. I would add more coconut because I love coconut. I will be rating this cake with 5 stars.