Easy and unfailing sponge cake (3 ingredients)

Ingredients :

 

Genoese :

4 eggs

120 g of sugar

120 g of flour

 

Soaking syrup (strongly recommended):

15 cl of water

50 g of powdered sugar

 

PREPARATION :

 

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C.

 

2. Place the whole eggs and the sugar in a container or in the bowl of your food processor.

 

3. Whip at high speed (speed 5 out of a total of 6 for me) for 5 minutes.

 

4. Reduce speed and whisk at medium speed (speed 3 for me) for 15 minutes. The dough should form a ribbon when you lift it with the whisk (see video).

 

5. Sift the flour over the mixture. Incorporate the flour with a spatula, picking it up from the bottom of the bowl. Be careful, you have to go very carefully!

 

6. Pour the mixture into a buttered and floured mold or lined with baking paper. The sponge cake is a preparation that sticks a lot so even with a silicone mold, I advise you to butter it.

 

7. Bake for 25 minutes for a 15 cm mold (as in the photo above), 20 minutes for a 22 cm mold (as in the photos of the final result), 8 minutes for a flat mold (to make the logs and the rolled).

 

8. Check the doneness by inserting a knife into the center of the cake. The blade should come out dry.

 

Soak

 

I strongly advise you to soak your sponge cake with a sugar syrup. This will make it softer and allow you to keep it longer.

 

1. Place the water and sugar in a saucepan.

 

2. Bring to the boil and let boil for about 2 minutes. Let come to room temperature.

 

3. Cut out your sponge cake using a cake cutter. You have -10% on the cake cutter with the code CHRISTELLE10, it is really essential for cutting equal sized slices.

 

4. Using a kitchen brush, generously soak each slice of sponge cake.

 

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It’s ready !