A simple recipe for sponge cake with berries

Easy to prepare homemade sweet, which, if desired, can be supplemented with chocolate fudge.

The amount of ingredients is measured by eye, so you don’t have to bother with kitchen scales.



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Ingredients

For the test:

• 4 eggs;
• a little less than a glass of sugar (about 200 g);
• a little less than a glass of flour;
• a pinch of salt;
• a teaspoon of soda or baking powder;
• vanilla sugar (optional).
  
  

For cream and fudge:

• a package of sour cream (350 g), fat content - 15%;
• cocoa to taste;
  *s ugar to taste;
• berries.
  
  

Cooking

Take a little less than a glass of sugar by eye. The author has adapted an old Soviet glass for this, in which 220 g of sugar is placed. Accordingly, a little less than a glass is about 200 g.

Carefully separate the whites from the yolks. Beat the whites with a pinch of salt and most of the sugar until a firm foam. It will depend on how high-quality and magnificent the biscuit will turn out . But if the peaks did not work, it does not matter. The main thing is that sugar dissolves well.

To whisk the proteins well, they must be chilled. And you can not allow them to get at least a little yolk.

Beat the yolks and the remaining sugar separately, with the addition of vanilla sugar or vanillin. Do not be too lazy to mix the yolks with sugar well: until the mass is clarified and the crystals are completely dissolved. Otherwise, the biscuit will turn out with sugar crust.

Put the protein mixture in the yolks and mix gently with a whisk or spatula. And now one more secret: for the biscuit to work out, the flour needs to be sifted. Put a sieve directly on the egg container and pass a little less than a glass of flour mixed with baking powder through it.

Knead the flour with eggs, at this time turn on the oven. Lubricate the mold with butter or margarine and pour the dough into it. When the oven warms up to 180 degrees, put a mold in it.

In a conventional gas oven, where heating is only from below, you can set a timer for 50-60 minutes. In an electric furnace with heating elements both from below and from above, it is baked faster - minutes in 30–40. You probably know better how long a biscuit will take in your oven.

Important: during baking, do not open the oven so that the biscuit does not “fall”. If time suffers, do not open it immediately after turning off the stove. Let it stay inside for about 20 minutes.



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While the biscuit is cooling, you can prepare any filling. As an option - sour cream with berries or fruits and chocolate fudge. Banana and kiwi, raspberries or currants are perfect, but the combination of sour cream and cherry is most delicious.

Put the most part of sour cream in any container, add sugar - the cream is ready. Cut the biscuit horizontally into two parts. If there is juice from the berries, you can pour them on the bottom cake. Then we smear it with sour cream, spread the berries, then cover with a top layer of biscuit.

To make fudge , pour a little less than half a packet of sour cream into the stewpan, add sugar and cocoa to taste. If you like bitter fudge, then you can put two tablespoons of sugar and four - cocoa. Put on a small fire and stir constantly so that it does not stick to the bottom. Do not bring to a boil, just warm well to make the mass more liquid and sugar to dissolve, then remove from heat.

Pour fondant on top of the biscuit and decorate if you wish.

The cake will be even tastier if you let it soak in the refrigerator, but this rarely happens. :)