Granny Cake

Here is ilan's Granny's "Long Cake" recipe

The original:

And the revamped:

Ingredients

200g (7/8 cup) butter
250g (1 1/8 cups) caster sugar (this is a finer version of regular white sugar)
6 eggs, separated
100g (just under 1 cup) white flour, sifted
100g (just over 3/4 cup) corn starch
bread crumbs for dusting the pan
icing sugar for dusting over top

Method

Note: This recipe is best done with a stand mixer.

1. Prepare a bundt cake pan by greasing very well then dusting with bread crumbs
2. Cream butter in the mixer
3. Add caster sugar, beat till light
4. Add yellow part of the eggs
5. Mix for approximately 20 mins in stand mixer at a low-medium speed (according to tradition - can it be done at higher speed in shorter time? We will have to try it...)
6. Set oven to 300F at some point in those 20ish minutes
7. Add flour and mix in
8. Add corn starch
9. In a separate bowl, beat egg whites until stiff
10. Fold beaten egg whites into the cake mixture gently
11. Pour batter into the prepared pan. Bake for 1 hour.