Tuesday, June 19, 2012

TWD BWJ - French Strawberry Cake

© Susan Lockhart King http://food-baby.blogspot.com All rights reserved

Strawberries, cream and a vanilla genoise? Yes please!

This week we have the very gorgeous French Strawberry Cake hosted by Sophia of Sophia's Sweets and Allison of Think, Love, Sleep, Dine.

I was planning on making this to take to my mother in law's place for Sunday lunch, but we ended up going down the night before instead which meant I was in a mad rush to get the cake made and cool enough to ice before leaving. Thanks to the P & Q I knew lots of others had trouble with their cakes not rising and there not being enough cream to decorate with.

While a traditional genoise requires beating the eggs over a bain marie this recipe didn't say that. To compromise I placed my eggs in a bowl of warm water while I got everything else ready.

I took lots of care whipping up the eggs and followed the recipe to a T and was lucky enough to end up with a cake tall enough to slice into 3 (very wonky) layers! I also made extra cream and even had some left over.

The taste test ...

© Susan Lockhart King http://food-baby.blogspot.com All rights reserved
This was heaven on a plate. Strawberries and cream are a perfect match and when you add in a lovely light sponge cake you really can't beat it. Not much to say really other than we loved it and it didn't last long!

You will find the recipe on Sophia's and Allison's blogs.

13 comments:

  1. i agree--yes please! yours looks deliciously packed with berries!

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  2. Looks beautiful! I didn't make this one, but you know I am sorry I didn't. :)

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  3. urs looks good!!! and tell me about wwonky layers!! :)

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  4. Yes please is right! Your cake looks great and I'm impressed with your layers:)

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  5. Gorgeous! Wish I could've gotten at least two layers out of my genoise! :)

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  6. Susan,

    Glad it worked out for you!

    ~ Carmen
    http://bakingismyzen.wordpress.com/

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  7. I agree - this was heaven on a plate. Beautiful cake you have there.

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  8. Beautiful! Maybe I should have warmed my eggs a bit more... that is a good idea. Yours looks great!! Good work!

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  9. super genoise! :) I got three thick layers too, but I doubled the batter... wound up with a lot more cake than I anticipated getting ... LOL!! Great job!

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  10. So pretty! Great job :)

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