THE MANOR... WEDNESDAY SPONGE CAKE CHALLENGE

THE MANOR .....WEDNESDAY SPONGE CAKE CHALLENGE . Yesterday I met up with collegues and friends Maureen and Rachael in the pizza HQ cafe Churchill for coffee ...we discussed the MANY ways to mix ingredients when preparing a cake. So here is my recipe ...A sponge cake with a challenge !! Preheat your oven to 180 deg C . Lightly grease and flour two 20cm round cake pans . Warm 2 tbs of water in a small saucepan with 3/4 cup of castor sugar . Beat 4 egg whites in a bowl until stiff, in a separate bowl mix the egg yolks together,set aside . Add the sugar mixture and beat well . Now add the egg yolk mixture a little at a time and beat until the mixture is thick . In another bowl mix together 1 and 1/2 cups of cornflour , 1 dsp of plain flour and 1 tsp of baking flour . Stir the combined dry ingredients into the wet mixture , finally adding 1 tsp of vanilla extract . Pour and divide even amounts of the batter between the 2 greased pans . Bake in the preheated oven for 25 minutes . Now here is the challenge ....... Take the sponge pans straight from the oven and still in the pan ,DROP EACH PAN (top side up) ON TO YOUR WORK BENCH I dropped the pans separately from shoulder height. I dare you .... think about the ingredients you just mixed and cooked togther ...!!! Let the sponge layers cool in the pans for 10 minutes and then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely . Spread a layer of jam of your choice over the base sponge layer and top with thick whipped cream . Top with remaining sponge layer and dress with a fine sprinkle of icing sugar .