Sand cake (granny's favourite recipe)

Name: Sand cake (granny's favourite recipe)
Cook time: 1 h 15 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 16
Ingredients: 4 Eggs (size M); 250 g soft butter or margarine; 250 g Sugar; 1 package Vanillin sugar; 7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1 untreated lemon; 1 pinch Salt; 3 TABLESPOONS Milk; 150 g Flour; 150 g Cornstarch; 1 TEASPOON Baking Powder; 7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar; 7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour

AUTHOR
Isreal Robertson

DIFFICULTY
easy

RATING

COOK TIME
75 mins

TOTAL TIME
75 mins

Ingredients

Servings: 16

4 Eggs (size M)
250 g soft butter or margarine
250 g Sugar
1 package Vanillin sugar
7-10 Tbsp grated rind of 1 untreated lemon
1 pinch Salt
3 TABLESPOONS Milk
150 g Flour
150 g Cornstarch
1 TEASPOON Baking Powder
7-10 Tbsp Icing sugar
7-10 Tbsp Fat and flour

Directions

1
Separate eggs. Beat the fat, 125 g sugar, vanillin sugar, lemon zest and salt until fluffy. Gradually stir in the egg yolks and milk. Beat the egg whites until stiff, adding 125 g of sugar. Fold the beaten egg whites into the fat-sugar mixture. Mix flour, starch and baking powder and fold in.
2
Pour the dough into a greased, flour-polluted box form (approx. 2 litres capacity; 10 x 30 cm). Bake in the preheated oven (electric cooker: 175 °C/ convection oven: 150 °C/ gas: level 2) on the 2nd rack from below for 45-50 minutes. Remove from the oven, allow to cool for approx. 15 minutes and turn out of the tin. Leave to cool completely. Dust with icing sugar and cut into pieces
3
waiting time approx. 2 hours