It happens. You get carried away watching the Food Network or chatting with your super cool daughter, and you forget about those people you invited over for tea and cake the other night.
It’s a good thing you’ve got an easy cake recipe handy: every bite melts in your mouth and will have your guests thinking you’ve invested hours into baking a cake so fluffy and light… Just make sure they’re out the door before they ask what’s in it…because, well, it’s on the heavy side 
As customary in my Eastern European background, measuring cups are nonexistent. Measurements are approximate, hopefully the visuals will help you out 
Ingredients:
- ~1 1/2 cups of flour
- ~ 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 7-9 eggs (cold)
- 1 TBS butter
- pinch of baking powder & salt
- strawberries/other berries for garnish
All purpose flour
Sugar
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 F and grease a pie plate with butter and “a sprinkle” of flour. Stick it in the fridge.
Then, separate the men from the boys:
Beat the egg whites with an electric mixer at medium speed (make sure the bowl is completely dry beforehand for best results). Slowly add the baking powder, salt, egg yolks, sugar and flour (in that order) to the mixture. Mix well, until it looks something like this:
Transfer to the pie plate immediately and stick in the oven. Prepare the tea and coffee in the 20 minutes or so that the cake bakes (or until a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean).
Final result:
Beat an egg white or two with about 1/2 cup of sugar & a TSP of vanilla extract for the icing.
Garnish with strawberries as the finishing touch and get the door
Rachel Ray ain’t got nothin’ on us
Special thanks to mom for letting me post her recipe: keeping my thighs enormous since 1988
See you soon!
I just found your blog today. It looks great. I’ll definitely keep reading!
We have friends that are eastern european too and once my mom was trying to get a recipe from the wife and she was asking her husband how much to use of something and she was yelling: “big cup or little cup” and he yelled back “big cup”. Big cup is a coffee mug and little cup is a tea cup. That’s how they measured.
Keeping your thighs enormous since 1998… I laughed out loud when I read that!
Yum! I love quick and easy desserts that look delicious. This is definitely one of them.
That cake looks awesome!
hahaha, i love this recipe AND how funny you manage to be while presenting it. separate the men from the boys, haaaaaa still laughing!
wow that looks awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oooh yummy. I love that you don’t measure even when baking!
LOVE IT! Especially with the toppigns!
oh wow that’s so easy! nice one!
keeping my thighs enormous – that is too funny
that cake looks so good! and I always have those things on hand.
Impressive, seriously.
“keeping my thighs enormous since 1988″
you crack me up! that cakes looks so worth it!!
so pretty and delicious!! i love how your family doesn’t use measurements
Beautiful JoB!
CAAAAAAAAAKE!!!!
No joke, Eastern European cakes rock my world. I can’t wait to try it! Thanks, Olga (And your mom)!
My mom always tries to convince me to keep a cake in the freezer to pull out when company comes by. I don’t know what year she thinks it is, who she thinks is coming by or why I am obligated to provide baked goods.
At least now I can convince her I’ve got my bases covered with this cake, so thanks!
haha, this post is super cute. And that cake is displayed soooo nicely! As long as it’s pretty, it doesn’t have to be the healthiest thing in the world.
that cake looks amazing and quick, I am definitely bookmarking this recipe!