Uploaded January 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Enough with slices; here's a heaping bowl of spoon cake for you. Lifehacker's Allie Chantorn Reinmann has the perfect recipe for an easy to make spoon cake.
The best cake topping is whipped cream. It’s light, delicate, mildly sweet, and works with everything from angel food cake to double chocolate mousse. Glazes, frostings, and cream cheese icings are all great, but whipped cream is the greatest. It highlights the star components while adding richness and moisture, without detracting with overwhelming, cloying sweetness.
Sadly, gravity keeps this fluffy cake topping from being used as much as I’d like. It’s too structurally weak to support thick cake layers without adding stabilizers, and it has a bad habit of turning back into its original state–liquid. But instead of admitting defeat, let’s rebrand these cake challenges as cake opportunities. Instead of building skyward, we’ll build “down.” Instead of weeping over weeping whipped cream, let’s count on it! This is the year of Spoon Cake Summer.
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Enough with slices; here's a heaping bowl of spoon cake for you. Lifehacker's Allie Chantorn Reinmann has the perfect recipe for an easy to make spoon cake.
The best cake topping is whipped cream. It’s light, delicate, mildly sweet, and works with everything from angel food cake to double chocolate mousse. Glazes, frostings, and cream cheese icings are all great, but whipped cream is the greatest. It highlights the star components while adding richness and moisture, without detracting with overwhelming, cloying sweetness.
Sadly, gravity keeps this fluffy cake topping from being used as much as I’d like. It’s too structurally weak to support thick cake layers without adding stabilizers, and it has a bad habit of turning back into its original state–liquid. But instead of admitting defeat, let’s rebrand these cake challenges as cake opportunities. Instead of building skyward, we’ll build “down.” Instead of weeping over weeping whipped cream, let’s count on it! This is the year of Spoon Cake Summer.
#spooncake #cake #recipe #howto
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Follow Allie on Instagram: instagram.com/thainybites
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Follow us around the web, too: lifehacker.com/you-need-spoon-cake-this-summer-1849066440
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