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Louise Cake

Name: Louise Cake
Cuisine: Australia/NZ
Ingredients: Butter; Sugar; Eggs (separated); All-purpose flour; Baking powder; Raspberry jam; Desiccated coconut; Vanilla extract

Bake, top, bake again: staged heat treatments build the classic Louise slice.

Intermediate#82 most lovedUses: Two-Step Sequential Process Control

classic Louise cakeraspberry coconut slice

The Chemistry in This Bake

Baking a base layer partway, adding jam and a meringue-coconut topping, then finishing the bake — a staged, sequential heat treatment.

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Ingredients

Butter
Sugar
Eggs (separated)
All-purpose flour
Baking powder
Raspberry jam
Desiccated coconut
Vanilla extract

Method

Cream butter and sugar, beat in yolks and vanilla, then fold in flour.
Press the base into a slice tin and bake at 180 °C for 10 minutes until just set.
Spread the part-baked base with raspberry jam.
Whip egg whites to stiff peaks and fold in sugar and coconut.
Spread the meringue-coconut topping over the jam.
Return to the oven for 20-25 minutes until the topping is golden — a second, distinct bake stage.