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Strawberry Sponge Cake Recipe


Strawberry Sponge Cake Recipe
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A wonderful Sponge Cake filled with Strawberries & cream. Found in a Letts cookbook.

Brianna

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Ingredients
  • 1 cup Caster sugar ( Berry Ex-Fine)
  • 2 tsp Grated Lemon rind
  • 5 Egg yolks
  • 1/4 cup boiling water
  • 2 tblsp lemon juice
  • 1 1/4 cups Self-raising flour
  • 5 Egg whites
  • 1 1/2 cups whipping cream
  • 1/2 tsp vanilla
  • 1 tblsp icing sugar
  • 500 g strawberries - washed & hulled

Directions
  1. Prep - time includes putting the cake together
  2. Pre-heat oven to 350F (180C). Grease & flour 2 - 8 in round or square cake pans.
  3. Stir together the sugar & the lemon rind
  4. Beat egg yolks until light, then gradually beat in sugar.
  5. When very thick & creamy, stir in boiling water & lemon juice
  6. Sift flour twice, then sift over top of egg yolk mixture. Fold in lightly but thoroughly.
  7. Whip egg whites until thick & fold in lightly
  8. Divide mixture evenly between pans.
  9. Bake for 30 mins or until top springs back when touched.
  10. Turn out on wire racks to cool.
  11. Whip cream with vanilla & icing sugar until stiff
  12. Chop most of the strawberries & fold through 3/4 of the cream. Save the remaining cream & some whole strawberries for decoration.
  13. With a long, sharp knife, carefully cut cakes across the center, making 4 layers.
  14. Sandwich layers together with the strawberry/cream mixture
  15. Pipe remaining cream in a lattice pattern over the top & decorate with the remaining strawberries

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I gotcha a HIGH 5 for recipe and presentation
my friend!! YUMMY!! :))) ^5 * * * * *


Added to some groups as well, Bri!! :)


Wow!! Looks great and the batter also is so light and moist. Thanks for sharing.


WOW! Good job!


Excellent! :)


I am definitely going to make this dreamy Strawberry Sponge Cake.
High Five


You should just stop while I can still walk. This is so great....sigh....


Yumooo, Good job! It looks phenomenal .


Yummy! Sounds great. Can't wait to try it. High five to you.


This sponge cake looks awesome! cant wait to have a go at makin it.


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