Strawberry Sponge Cake

We dearest strawberry shortcake made amongst angel nutrient cake or a sponge cake, rather than the biscuit type shortcake. This sponge cake recipe is excellent as well as if covered well, stays soft as well as moist for several days. I've served it amongst berries, Standard Mandarin oranges, pudding...you cite it. It is low-cal every bit air as well as is the PERFECT base of operations for a 1000000 dissimilar desserts.

7 egg whites
7 egg yolks
1¼ cups granulated sugar
1/3 loving cup whole milk, heated
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 loving cup cake flour (not all purpose)

Preheat your oven to 350F. Spray TWO large (9" x 5" x 3") loaf pans amongst cooking spray. Line the bottom of each loaf pan amongst parchment newspaper (wax newspaper volition function inwards a pinch) as well as and then spray lightly again. Set aside.

In a medium sized mixing bowl, shell the egg yolks, amongst an electrical mixer, for nigh 2 minutes. Add carbohydrate to the yolks as well as shell good for some other infinitesimal or two. Set aside.

Heat milk, vanilla, as well as lemon juice until really warm, but non hot (I used my microwave). Add to beaten eggs (whisk piece you lot add together the warm milk to the eggs. Fold inwards the cake flour. Set aside.

In a drinking glass or stainless steel bowl (don't utilization plastic) shell the egg whites until rigid peaks form. Fold the beaten egg whites into the batter (by hand) until you lot can't run into whatsoever white streaks. Be gentle hence that you lot create non deflate the batter (do NOT use a mixer or whisk for this step).

Bake at 350 for 30-40 minutes (my oven takes 35 minutes). You volition know the cake is done when a toothpick inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean. The tumble out of the cake volition live prissy as well as golden brown. Let the cake balance inwards the pans for about 10 minutes as well as then plough out onto rack.

This cake has a low-cal fluffy crumb as well as cuts beautifully:

Anything you lot tin imagine would live delicious betwixt layers of this cake. Here I simply added a piddling carbohydrate to a tin of mandarine oranges, brought it to a boil as well as thickened it amongst a piddling cornstarch slurry then chilled it.