Today I’ll show you how to make a very basic sweet recipe that is super practical to fix breakfasts time or to serve with coffee/tea when you invite people over: Sponge cake with Limoncello cream
Ingredients |
Sponge Cake |
100 grams of sugar
150 gr wheat flour
150 gr butter
1 sachet of baking yeast
1 shut of limoncello cream
25 g of citrus powder
3 eggs
Steps |
• Mix sugar, yolks and melted butter. Whisk until you get a well-blended cream.
• Add the citrus powder and the Limoncello cream.
• Gradually introduce the flour mixed with the yeast.
• Whisk the egg whites until they are stiff.
• Incorporate the egg whites into the dough little by little, and making enveloping movements, so that the egg whites do not lose air.
• Bake for 25 minutes at 170 degrees Celsius.
Icing |
50 gr icing sugar.
½ lemon juice.
Steps |
• Once the sponge cake is almost cold, mix the icing sugar with the lemon juice and whisk until well dissolved.
• Paint the surface of the sponge cake with the citrus mixture and let it cool on a rack.