Strawberry Shortcake

OMG!!! "Strawberry Shortcake" it's my all time fav!!! Light strawberry fragrance ...

Vanilla Sponge Cake

Ingredients:

(A) Egg Batter

Egg yolk 4 

Sugar 50g

Oil 90g

Cake flour 110g

Baking powder 3/4 teaspoon 

Full cream milk 80g

Vanilla exact 1 tsp

Pinch of salt

(B) Meringue

Egg white 5

Cream of tar tar 5g

Sugar 50g

8" inch (Fixed) cake pan

Method

(A) Egg batter

-Using electric mixer, whisk egg yolks with sugar till well incorporated.

-Add oil,full cream milk and vanilla exact whisk it till creamy and bubbles formed. Beat until mixture is fluffiness .

-Add flour sieved it gradually into 3-4 addition, using hand whisk mix it.

-Add baking powder and pinch of salt. Well-mixed.

(B) Meringue 

-Using electric mixer, whisk egg whites for secs till bubbles formed.

-Add cream of tar tar.

-Add sugar gradually.

-Whisk meringue to firm peak.

-Add 1/3 (B) meringue to (A) egg batter at a time. 

-I'm using hand whisk to do folding.

- Using a spatula doing the last folding.

-Line a baking paper on the base of the cake pan.

-Pour down the batter slowly. Tap the cake pan on worktop a few times to burst the air bubbles inside.

-Preheat oven @160 degree.

(Mine Rowenta oven,tempt and baking duration still varies on individual oven performance)

-Using water bath baking, means emerge cake pan on a tray of hot water during baking. 

-Baking for 30mins @160 degree. 

(For Rowenta oven, after 1st 10mins place a tray on the TOP rack to block the heat from burning the cake)

-After 30mins, REDUCED tempt to 140 degree bake for another 10 mins. 

-Inverted let it cooled.

Sad... Cracked TOP!!! But never mind la no worries , coz later the TOP will b slice-off. Hahahaha..

Strawberry Frosting

Ingredients:

Whipping Cream 1 cup

Strawberry emulco 1/4 tsp

Fresh strawberries 2 small boxes

(For decoration)

Easy method:

-Chill the balloon whisk into freezer for 10mins. This is to whip the fresh cream faster.

-Whip the whipping cream to firm peak, lower down to lowest speed add strawberry emulco to well-mixed.

Spread fresh strawberry cube on every layering. (Optional)

Lastly frost the whole cake. Next.. time for decoration... That's my favourite!!!

Nicely sliced serving my guests.

Hope you'll like the "Strawberry Shortcake" recipe , and thanks for browsing ... See you soon!!! 

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