- This cake holds a special place in my heart as it is my very first celebration cake :)
- ingredients:
- Sponge
- eggs - 4
- sugar powdered - 1cup all purpose flour- 1cup
corn flour- 2 tablespoon
- baking powder- 1tsp
- salt - 1 pinch
- vanilla essence - 1 tsp
- Filling/Topping: whipping cream: 400 ml
- icing sugar - 3-4 Tbsp
- mixed fruit Bits - 1 cup
- fruits for decoration
- Sugar syrup:
- boil 1 cup water and 1 cup sugar for 1 minute after it start boiling.
Method:
- Preheat oven to 190deg C , reduce to 180deg C after 10 mins of putting the cake in.
- Grease and line a round 9 inch cake pan
- Sift the flour + baking powder + salt + cornflour 3 times.
- Beat the eggs and sugar well with beater for 10 minutes.
- Add vanilla essence and and beat for 1 min.
- Gently fold in the sifted flour.
- Turn gently into tin and bake for 30-35mins till done.
- Once done, remove from tin after 5 mins and leave on rack to cool completely. Cut horizontally into 3 layers.
- Filling:
- Whip whipping cream with 4tbs pwdrd sugar until thick and holds peaks.
- Reserve 1/2 for icing the top.
- In the remainder of the cream ,fold in the chopped fruit bits.
- Place the bottom most layer of the sponge on your serving platter, put sugar syrup all over cake. do not put too much otherwise cake will become soggy. spread 1/2 of the whipped cream and bits mixture over it.
- Place the middle layer over this, put sugar surup and repeat with the rest of the fruit cream.
- cover the whole cake with some sugar syrup and then with whipped cream evenly.
- decorate with fruits on top of cake as per your choice of decoration
- Chill well before serving.
- Please leave your queries and questions I'll be more than happy to answer.
- feedback and suggestions are most welcome :)
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