2018 KEEN YOUNG COOK FINALIST: AINI AMIN

Strawberries & Cream Genoise

Ingredients

• Caster Sugar   125 g

• Flour  125 g

• Eggs  4 medium

• Butter   40 g

• Vanilla extract  1 tsp

• Fresh cream  600-700 g

• Strawberries  250 g

• Sugar syrup... Sugar 1/2 cup+ water 3/4 cup (cook until sugar dissolves, cool, I will use it just for brushing not all of it) 

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​Method

​1. Whip sugar and eggs until triple in volume. Then add vanilla.
2. Add in flour in 2-3 batches and fold carefully.
3. Add in melted butter and fold.
4. Pour into two 6 inch round pans.
5. Bake in a preheated oven at 175 C for 15-20 minutes.
6. Take out let cool.
7. Cut strawberries.
8. Whip cream with 2 tbsp icing sugar.
9. Layer cake with cream and strawberries.

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