1, usually a 3 liter pan, you want to use 4 house eggs will be fine, if it is a clay egg, small, use 5
2, egg whites and yolks should be separated. Then beat the egg whites and yolks separately. Note that you can only beat in one direction. What is the extent of beating the egg white? Stir with chopsticks, take it out, chopsticks on the egg white to fall not to fall, it can be, if the chopsticks on the egg white silk can stand up, it shows that beat the old; egg yolk, to beat to the cream like silky smooth look can be.
3, and then add two and a half steel cups of flour (can be ordinary high-gluten wheat flour, steamed bread flour, but be sure not to professional such as the Golden Elephant brand of high-gluten bread flour, too high gluten will lead to the cake collapsed, hair can not be up); and then mix the egg whites, egg yolks, white sugar, together with the beating to the silky smooth shape
4, pay attention to do not touch the water, this is the key!
5, in addition to the use of vegetable oil, you can also use butter hot pot, will be more fragrant.
6, how to know the pan is hot? When you heat the pan, put the oil on, see the rippled look, that is, you can put in the seasoned cake ingredients. The rest of the heating method of the same building.
When you get good at it, a cake can be ready in 20 minutes from mixing. Of course, if you do it with a cake mix, it usually works, but the grains will be larger and not that extra silky honeycomb cake.