Chiffon Puns

UPDATE: Recipe Test here.

User u/shmoo311 was looking for a friend´s ¨secret family recipe¨ for a yellow peppermint cake with what appeared to be seven-minute or Swiss meringue frosting (close! It´s more like Italian meringue)

To me, this sounds exactly like Betty Crocker´s ¨Peppermint Chip Chiffon Cake¨ which was published in home magazines for all of the 1940s, and probably longer, as an ad to sell General Mills products, most particularly Gold Medal flour.

Notes:

• Be sure to read the recipe all the way through for the ¨Candy Mountain Icing¨ and to make sure you have all the ingredients, because they´re not all listed at the top.
• Use 6 standard large eggs rather than 7 medium. This was published during WWII so large Grade AA eggs (which is what professional kitchens used) were tough to come by.
• If you don´t have cream of tartar, don´t worry. It´s only included to make it easier to get the egg whites stiff. You can use a teaspoon of vinegar or lemon juice instead.
• The food coloring would´ve been liquid, but you can use gel or powder.
• You can bake this in a tube mold with removable bottom, a 9x13 pan, or two round 8" pans
• If you don´t have or want to use light corn syrup for the icing, you can use an extra 1/2 cup or 100g of sugar and cook it covered for the first few minutes so it doesn´t crystallize on you.
• I´ve converted it to metric below for people who aren´t American bakers and/or nihilists.

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For Cake:

• Oven at 160C
• 240g all purpose flour (if using self-rising, omit baking powder and salt)
• 300g granulated sugar
• 15g (1 tablespoon) baking powder
• 5g (1 teaspoon) table salt
• 104g (118mL) light vegetable or corn oil
• 6 large eggs, separated. Whites should weigh ~180g, yolks ~120g
• 130g (130mL) cold water
• 5g (1 teaspoon) peppermint extract
• 3g (1/2 teaspoon) cream of tartar
• red food coloring

For Icing:

• 100g granulated sugar (use 200g if not using corn syrup)
• 80g light corn syrup, like Karo
• 30ml water
• crushed peppermint candy, as desired
• 2 egg whites

She is a yonko and she beaten many giant warriors in her childhood easily, then why didn't she forced loki to marry chiffon instead!!

Well I pretty much had to, didn´t I?

Betty Crocker´s Peppermint Chip Chiffon Cake ca. 1940

Yesterday u/shmoo311 was looking to crack the code on a friend´s secret family recipe for a peppermint cake.

I replied saying it sounded like Betty Crocker´s Peppermint Chip Chiffon Cake, a recipe from a mid-century classic print ad by General Mills to sell Gold Medal Flour.

I posted the recipe and a few tips, and as I had a flat of eggs not quite up to snuff for my bakery, decided to whip one up as a cheap way to use them up.

SUBSTITUTIONS/ADDITIONS

• Corn syrup ➡ invert sugar (details in comments).
• Peppermint extract ➡ 3 drops peppermint oil + 5ml vanilla
• 10¨ tube pan ➡ three extra-deep 6¨ rounds
• Candy canes ➡ peppermint pillow mints.
• Doubled the icing as I knew the recipe as listed would only be enough for a thinly iced cake with no layers. It was enough to frost and fill two 6¨ rounds generously, three 6¨ rounds stingily, or two 8¨ rounds moderately.
• Omitted cream of tartar. This is just to help your meringues whip up. Substitute with a spoon of lemon juice or white vinegar, a pinch of citric acid, or leave it out completely. It´s fine.
• Converted to metric because this no gods no masters way of just spooning things into cups gives me the willies.
• lined the bottom of my pans with paper, but didn´t grease or flour a damn thing and neither should you.

WATCH OUT FOR:

• Underbeaten egg whites. You want to whip them so stiffly that they start sliding and streaking around the sides of the bowl. If you don´t beat them enough, you´ll get a denser, less voluminous cake. So if that´s what you´re looking for, go ahead and underbeat!
• You just fold it in, David. Folding something is in much gentler than stirring. You go around like a ferris wheel, not like a carousel. Best way hedge your bets is by sacrificing a bit of your egg whites and mixing it fairly vigorously into the yolk mixture. This lightens the batter so it will be easier to incorporate without overmixing. If you over mix it´s not the end of the world, but your cake will be sh

They just seemed so comfortable with her being abused despite her being their sister. Like I get that they are a dysfunction family but still. Like no one seemed to even understand why she would turn on Big Mama. Not to mention they we are really quick to be happy to kill their own sister.

I’m needing to dye the tips of some sleeves in the shape of wings that are made of chiffon fabric. Is there a recommendation? I’ve been eyeing Jacquard but can I use their regular paints or do I need their dyes specific for a small area? Or if anyone knows how decotissu works on chiffon I’d like to know

I got this panda design cake image from my friend

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