Chiffon Layer Cake

Name: Chiffon Layer Cake
Yield: Makes one 9-inch cake layer
Ingredients: 1 cup (7 ounces/198 grams), sugar; 1 1/4 cups (5 ounces/142 grams), cake flour; 1 1/2 teaspoons, baking powder; 1/4 teaspoon, salt; 5 , large eggs (2 whole, 3 separated), room temperature; 6 tablespoons, unsalted butter, melted and cooled; 2 tablespoons, water; 2 teaspoons, vanilla extract

Desserts or Baked Goods

Appears in Cook's Country June/July 2014

Our Chiffon Layer Cake is light, moist, and tender, yet still has enough structure.

SERVES Makes one 9-inch cake layer

TIME 1¼ hours, plus 2 hours cooling

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