Sunday, 30 June 2013

Wimbledon Cake

I thought, as we were half way through Wimbledon week - go Andy, go Laura - I would make the "Wimbledon cake".
I had high hopes for this, as it is the cake on the front of the book. Unfortunately, mine did not look quite as perfect. having said that, it did taste good!
The main problem with my cake was that it did not seem to rise very much. As with the Nusskuchen cake, the eggs were divided up, and the egg whites folded in at the end. This time, I whisked the whites for longer, in the hope that the cake would rise more, but unfortunately not. It looked rather like a pancake when it came out of the oven. The recipe does not contain flour, just semolina, sugar, eggs and orange juice and rind, so I guess it was never going to rise a great deal. Still, it was thick enough to slice in half, and fill.
The filling is particularly nice as it has passion fruit, along with cream and strawberries. In the end it actually turned out to be pretty good, and received a score of 8.5
Mary says that the cake must be eaten on the day of filling - fear not, we have managed to follow Mary's advice!

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