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🍽️ Delicate Sponge Flowers with Icing

234 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Separate the eggs. Beat the egg yolks with the sugar until creamy.
  2. 2. Gently fold the soft butter into the egg yolk mixture.
  3. 3. Beat the egg whites until stiff and fold them in as well.
  4. 4. Carefully stir the flour into the batter.
  5. 5. Take one third of the batter and spread it thinly onto a baking sheet lined with baking paper.
  6. 6. Bake the base for 5 to 6 minutes at 200 degrees.
  7. 7. Invert the sponge cake onto a wire rack and peel off the paper immediately.
  8. 8. Let the sponge cake cool completely for two hours.
  9. 9. Repeat the process with the remaining batter to bake two more layers.
  10. 10. Spread the jam onto two of the cooled cake layers.
  11. 11. Place the third layer on top.
  12. 12. Cut about 20 flowers from the layers using a flower-shaped cutter (4 to 6 cm in diameter).
  13. 13. Crumble the leftovers and serve them with yogurt as a dessert.
  14. 14. Boil the sugar in the water until it forms threads when dripped from a coffee spoon.
  15. 15. Stir the hot mixture into the powdered sugar until a thick glaze forms.
  16. 16. Thin the glaze with lemon juice and stir vigorously.
  17. 17. Color the glaze with 1 or 2 drops of pink food coloring.
  18. 18. Coat the sponge cake flowers thickly with it and let them set.
  19. 19. Insert birthday candles into the center and serve the cakes.

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