Fluffy Yellow Layer Cake
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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2008, America's Test Kitchen TV
Box mixes are famous for engineering cake with ultralight texture. We set out to make an even fluffier cake—without chemicals and additives.
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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS
We adapted a chiffon cake technique when devising our fluffy yellow layer cake recipe, using a large number of whipped egg whites to get high volume and texture. For moisture, we used a combination of butter and oil in our yellow cake recip...
