Butter Scrumpins Cake

Congratulations us!! Our very first entirely Julia Child recipe: Biscuit au Beurre (that is, Butter Spongecake for those of us not fluent in French).

This delicacy involves a lot of whipping if you don't use an electric beater. Rotating every minute, we marveled at the strength Julia must have had in her forearms - ours were screaming in protest. Mind you, we spend HOURS exercising.

You know how good cake batter tastes from a box? Well, we don't even think boxed cake batter will taste good anymore after tasting this. It is light, sweet, buttery...everything you could ever want.

We had slight confusion as to what type of cake pan to bake our cake in. We decided on an angel food cake pan. This was not the best choice. It was much to big for our cake, and it would have done much better in a normal, round cake pan. Our cake also did not rise as much as we think it should have; which we attribute to not beating our eggs correctly. To cover all manner of injuries, we whipped up some cream to make a lovely topping to our somewhat-shrunken cake.

So, Julia: 1. Kelley & Gillian: 0.
Our cake declined a picture for this blog post, but don't worry folks, we'll keep trying.

Until next time,

G & K