Golden Cake

Name: Golden Cake (Ponqué)
Cuisine: Puerto Rican
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice, or 2 teaspoons vanilla or almond extract; 3 cups sifted cake flour; 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice, or 2 teaspoons vanilla or almond extract; 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice, or 2 teaspoons vanilla or almond extract; 1 teaspoon baking powder; ½ teaspoon salt; 1 pound butter (at room temperature); 12 eggs (recipe requires 12 egg yolks and only 8 egg whites); 12 eggs (recipe requires 12 egg yolks and only 8 egg whites); 2 cups sugar; 12 eggs (recipe requires 12 egg yolks and only 8 egg whites)

Ponqué

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Puerto Rican Cookery

By Carmen Aboy Valldejuli

Published 1983

About

Ingredients

A

1 pound butter (at room temperature)
2 cups sugar
12

Americas
Caribbean
Puerto Rico
Cake
Vegetarian

Method

Preheat oven to 350°F. Grease a round 10 x 4-inch aluminum tube cake pan and sprinkle lightly with flour.
Cream butter thoroughly. Add sugar gradually and mix. Add 12 egg yolks, one at a time, and beat well together. Add lim