CAKES: I missed this basic cake recipe when posting the cakes category. This is a different kind of sponge cake to the "yellow sponge cake" I have used as basic cake in most cake recipes.

BASIC GENOISE CAKE:

 

 

 

 

1 cup cake & pastry flour

4 eggs at room temperature

1/2 cup + 2 tbsp. sugar

pinch of salt

1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

2 tbsp. butter, melted

 

 

 

Preheat over to 350 degrees F.  Grease and paper an 8-inch spring-form pan.

 

Sift flour, 2 tbsp. sugar and the salt together onto a large piece of wax paper. Repeat the sifting one more time.

 

Place eggs in a large bowl set over a large saucepan of water, making sure the bottom of the bowl does not touch the water. Beat with a hand-held electric beat until eggs are hot; then remove bowl from the saucepan and continue beating until eggs are pale-yellow in colour and forms long ribbons when the beaters are lifted off the batter. Add in vanilla.

 

Pour flour mixture back into the sift and shift in roughly 1/3 of it onto the eggs in the bowl. Use a rubber spatula to very gently fold flour into the eggs. Repeat adding and folding in of the other 2 batches of flour. Fold in melted butter. Pour batter into prepared pan, shaking pan slightly to distribute batter more evenly.

 

Bake for 25 minutes or until cake is a nice golden colour on the top and when a tooth pick inserted into middle of it comes out clean. Remove to rack to cool for 10 to 15 minutes. Invert cake from pan, peel off wax paper; then sit cake, top side up, on rack to cool completely.