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.