Pretzel Cake Layers

Name: Pretzel Cake Layers
Yield: Makes two 9-inch cake layers
Ingredients: 5 ounces thin, pretzel sticks, broken into roughly ½-inch pieces (2 cups); 1 1/4 cups, whole milk; 6 , large egg whites; 3 tablespoons, molasses; 1 teaspoon, vanilla extract; 1 3/4 cups (7 ounces), cake flour; 1 1/2 cups (10½ ounces), sugar; 2 teaspoons, baking powder; 2 teaspoons, table salt; 14 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 14 pieces and softened

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Appears in Cook's Country April/May 2020

Desserts or Baked Goods

Cakes

SERVESMakes two 9-inch cake layers

TIME1 hour, plus 2¼ hours cooling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

To make sweet cake layers with pretzel flavor, we started by grinding up pretzels into a “flour” to use in the batter. The addition of some cake flour ensured that the cake had enough structure and was tender, not dense. A little salt and a...

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