Hot Milk Cake soft, moist, and delicious. You know when you feel like making a simple and genuine home-baked dessert that makes us all feel like kids again with that delightful aroma that gradually fills the whole house? Today I really wanted to prepare such a dessert, but not the usual cake, I was looking for something different and then I remembered the picture of a cake I once saw in an American magazine, of which I had noted down the recipe in my trusty notebook: the Hot Milk Sponge Cake. I must confess that many times I promised myself to try making it, but I always had doubts about its success. I didn’t trust pouring boiling milk over a mass of whipped eggs and instead, I didn’t understand anything… But today I said: ‘What’s the worst that can happen, if it all goes wrong I’ve wasted 3 eggs and a bit of flour…’ But instead, a deliciously soft cake came out of my oven. A cake unique in flavor and softness, not at all ordinary in its simplicity, and its only peculiarity lies in that boiling milk, which makes it as light as a Sponge Cake and at the same time elastic and resistant, also delicious for filling. If you have all the ingredients at home, I highly recommend trying it; you will be pleasantly surprised and will fall irresistibly in love at the first bite! Let’s hurry to the kitchen and prepare the Soft Milk Cake together
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- Difficulty: Easy
- Cost: Cheap
- Preparation time: 15 Minutes
- Portions: For a 9.5-inch diameter pan
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Energy 161.77 (Kcal)
- Carbohydrates 27.71 (g) of which sugars 16.45 (g)
- Proteins 3.29 (g)
- Fat 5.03 (g) of which saturated 2.93 (g)of which unsaturated 2.10 (g)
- Fibers 1.97 (g)
- Sodium 56.09 (mg)
Indicative values for a portion of 70 g processed in an automated way starting from the nutritional information available on the CREA* and FoodData Central** databases. It is not food and / or nutritional advice.
* CREATES Food and Nutrition Research Center: https://www.crea.gov.it/alimenti-e-nutrizione https://www.alimentinutrizione.it ** U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central, 2019. https://fdc.nal.usda.gov
Ingredients for the Soft Milk Cake
- 3 eggs
- 6 oz oz sugar
- 2 oz oz butter
- 1/2 cup cup whole milk
- 1 1/2 cups cups flour
- 1 packet baking powder
- 1/3 pod vanilla (or a packet of vanillin)
- 1 pinch salt
- as needed powdered sugar (for decoration)
How to prepare the Hot Milk Cake
Beat the whole eggs and sugar with electric beaters for 7-8 minutes until they become light and foamy. Gently fold in the sifted flour with the baking powder and a pinch of salt.
Heat the milk with the butter and the piece of vanilla pod or the packet of vanillin in a saucepan. Before it comes to a boil, turn off the heat, remove the piece of vanilla, and pour it gently into the batter, continuing to mix with a spatula.
Butter and flour a 9.5-inch diameter cake pan and pour the batter inside. Bake the Milk Cake in the preheated static oven at 350°F for about 30 minutes.
Always perform the toothpick test to check the cooking even inside the cake. Let it cool before turning it out onto a serving plate, and decorate it as desired with some powdered sugar.
See you tomorrow with a new recipe, a hug, Loredana
Loredana’s Tips
The Milk Cake stays soft and moist in a container for 2-3 days
This cake does not lend itself to variations, so you cannot replace either the butter or the milk
Don’t miss the recipe for my Milk Bundt Cake

