Ingredients
BASE
1 slice 8" sponge cake
CREAM CHEESE MIXTURE
A
1 tin strawberry in syrup
250 g of cream cheese
60 g of plain flour, sieved
B
5 egg yolks
1 tbsp lemon juice
C
5 egg whites
80 g of caster sugar
Preparation
- Preheat oven to 180°C/ 350°F.
- Line a 8" round cake tin with grease proof paper and put i prepared sponge cake.
- Double boil strawberry and cream cheese until cream cheese has melted.
- Ado plain flour and cook until the mixture has thickened.
- Remove from heat and leave tc cool.
- Add B and stir well.
- Whisk egg white and caster sugar at high speed until soft peak is formed.
- Slowly mix into mixture.
- Pour mixture onto sponge cake.
- Steambake at 180°C for 20 minutes.
- Reduce the heat to 140°C/ 280°F and bake for another 1 hour and 45 minutes or until cooked.
- Leave cake to cool in the oven with door ajar 1 hour.
- Chill in the fridge for 4 hours.
- Remove cake from tin and place onto a cake board.
- Cut into pieces and serve.
Baking Tips and Ideas
- Canned strawberry in syrup can be purchased at any supermarket.
- Can use 100g strawberry jam and 300g fresh milk to substitute it.
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