a sponge cake for saena? maybe...

Herro!
so saena and i have been discussing what could have gone wrong with saena's cake? We found a similar recipe to hers and i decided to give it a go. Anyone who went to college with me would know that Erti/Helen/Saena and I spent lots of our 'relax' time (we didnt have a lot of that) sitting in front of the tv watching chick flicks and eating sponge cake. Unfortunately i've lost the original recipe and its been a year and a half since i've made sponge cake. SO! this was the result. just for Saena i did the cute pic of the cake as the owl's tummy ahhaha.

i also made two videos for saena but eh.. the first one is really stupid so i'll save that for her and colin and anyone whos interested in watching me talk about fred and ginger whilst beating egg yolks with sugar. HAHHA

ok so heres my recipe

ingredients:

3 eggs
3 tbsp water
3/4 cup of sugar
1 tbsp honey
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup all purpose flour
1/2 tsp ground green tea
1 tsp baking soda
1 pinch of salt

- beat eggs, sugar, honey, vanilla extract, water together until pale yellow and foamy. (do not overbeat! if eggs start seperating you know its no good lol)
- fold in dry ingredients, as nigella says 'slowly but firmly' and dont over fold!
- pour batter into lightly greased pan.
- steam in rice cooker (for 20 mins in starting from when water is boiling) or on a rack in a wok/pan for 20 mins on medium heat. If steaming in a pan/wok, cover pot opening with a paper towl or clean hand towel (this absorbs the moisture and avoids it dripping into the cake).



as i suspected while i was making the batter, my cake is a little over folded. I suspect it started when i was beating the eggs, i think i might have over beaten it a little bit. I modified the recipe a lil bit from what i was doing in the video (like the baking soda and the sugar) but i will retest it soon to make sure the recipe is correct.

WELL SAENA! i hope this helps :D