Best sponge cake and yummie trifle

On Chefkoch.de I found a sponge cake recipe (like Genuese sponge, but without any butter), which was praised by nearly every user there. I simply HAD to try it.

And this is the result:

I have never ever made a Genuese sponge cake with such a magnificent result.

 

This is where I took the recipe from:  

 

http://www.chefkoch.de/rezepte/533511150210875/Biskuitteig-hell-oder-dunkel.html

 

 

6 eggs

200 g sugar

100 g flour

100 g corn starch

25 g cocoa powder (for chocolate sponge) or instant vanilla curd mix (for vanilla sponge)

1 tsp baking powder

 

1. Devide the eggs. Mix egg whites until stiff peak, slowly adding the sugar. This step takes quite a while. The recipe says about 30 minutes with hand held mixer, or about 10 minutes with a kitchen aid. This step is the 'secret', actually. Beating the egg whites for such a long time makes the batter and later on the cake really fluff.
2. Add sieved flour, starch and powders and fold under carefully. Fold! Do not stir!
3. Put baking parchment onto the bottom of a 26 cm baking tin. Do not grease anything! Fill in the batter and put the tin into the preheated oven (200°C) for 30-45 minutes. The recipe says 30 minutes, but mine was not done until 45 minutes baking.

This cake is not cut. It is just put upside down. It comes out of the oven quite even.

And what did I make out of this great piece of bakery?... Trifle... :)

Cut sponge into pieces. Fill a quarter of them into a bowl. Add some teaspoons Bailey's, stir. Top with strawberries. Then, put vanilla custard cream on top. Begin again with the sponge, etc. End with vanilla cream. Finally, spread some clotted cream onto the trifle and decorate to your liking :)

This is the second layer of the vanilla cream. I decorated it just before the guests arrived, and thus had no time to make pictures then.

Wedding give-aways

Friends of mine got married. There must be some kind of trend now ;)  Their big party will be in autumn, so just after the wedding ceremony they went to a restaurant with their closest family. Nevertheless, ... Wanna guess? Right. I made the give-aways :)

 

 

This is what they looked like. 30 individual little cakes.  

 



 First, make a cake (lemon flavoured Victoria sponge).

Cut out small circles and cover each one in strawberry jam.

Cover them in marzipan and let set.

Cover them in green fondant.

Roll out light blue fondant as thin as possible and cut out flowers. Furthermore, make blue roses.

Cut out white flowers.

 

 Have some edible glitter and golden sugar pearls (top right).

And then it's time do decorate :)