Lapis Legit

Steps to Make It

• Gather the ingredients.
• Beat the butter till easy, ideally with an electric powered hand- or stand mixer.
• Add 1/2 of of sugar and beat till the combination is mild and fluffy.
• Add the egg yolks and vanilla extract and beat very well.
• Whisk the egg whites in a spotless, grease-loose bowl till mild and frothy. Remember that the whisk ought to additionally be easy and freed from the merest hint of grease, in any other case you’ll now no longer get the preferred extent out of your egg whites.
• Gradually upload the opposite 1/2 of of the sugar to the foamy egg whites, at the same time as persevering with to whip the egg whites slowly and steadily.
• Once you have introduced all of the sugar, set the mixer placing better and beat till the egg whites shape stiff peaks that don’t crumble while you pull out the whisk.
• Add a beneficiant tablespoon of the egg whites to the butter combination and blend well.
• Using a spatula, lightly fold in one-0.33 of the flour combination into the butter batter, accompanied via way of means of a 3rd of the last egg whites.
• Repeat twice, on every occasion folding in a 3rd of the flour combination after which a 3rd of the egg whites. Do now no longer overmix; forestall folding as soon as the batter will become uniform in color.
• Place 1/2 of of the batter into every other bowl.
• Carefully however very well whisk the spices into the batter of one of the bowls.
• Heat the oven to broil, till it is fine and hot. Grease the eight-inch spring shape pan.
• Using a plastic dough scraper, unfold 1 / 4 of the unspiced batter over the lowest of the pan, making sure a flat, easy layer. The batter ought to be flippantly distributed, with out thick or skinny spots and the facet of the mould ought to be stored easy.
• Place the spring shape pan below the broiler till the batter will become puffed, golden and cooked. The first layer will take longer than the rest, due to the fact it’s miles barely decrease withinside the pan and consequently in addition from the warmth source. It ought to take approximately five mins to cook, however make certain the layer is cooked earlier than including the subsequent layer of batter. Remove the pan from the oven.
• Brush the pinnacle of the cake layer with melted butter.
• Spread 1 / 4 of the spiced batter on pinnacle. Again, unfold the batter out flippantly and smoothly, and area the pan returned below the broiler.
• Once this sediment is cooked (after approximately three mins), cast off the pan from the oven and brush with butter.
• Again, unfold 1 / 4 of the unspiced batter over the cooked layer and hold repeating this method the use of contrasting layers of spiced and unspiced batter till all of the batter and butter are used up. You ought to turn out to be with 8 cake layers with alternating mild and darkish colors.
• When the remaining layer has been cooked and eliminated from below the broiler, cautiously loosen the cake from the facet of the spring shape pan.
• Release the clamp of the spring shape, cast off the cake and permit to chill on a cord cooling rack.
• Once the cake has cooled down, wrap it up in some layers of plastic wrap and shop in a groovy area out of doors of the refrigerator. Serve spekkoek in skinny slices.