Ingredients for 8 servings
- eggs 7 of 60 gr (2.1 oz)
- sugar 250 g (8.75 oz)
- flour 200 g (7 oz)
- baking powder 1/2 packet
- 1 pinch of salt
Recipe: Savoy Cake
Prep
10 min
Cook
40 min
Total
50 min
Servings
8 serv.
Step-by-step directions
1 Preheat the oven to thermostat (5) 150 degrees.
2/ Add the sugar to the egg yolks and work until the mixture forms a ribbon.
3/ Whip the egg whites until stiff peaks form.
4/ Mix the baking powder with the flour, add part of the flour to the egg yolks then a portion of egg whites by gently folding. Repeat to mix everything in 2 or 3 times.
5/ Pour immediately into the mold, and bake in a gentle oven for 40 minutes.
6/ Turn out hot onto a cooling rack.
Chef Patrick's Comment
This recipe is a simple recipe with 2 little things: nowadays the trend is to use less sugar so you can remove 50g of sugar from this recipe, another thing is to leave the door slightly ajar by wedging a small plug at the opening so the air will contribute to the success of this recipe, as for the mold take one covered with Teflon or a flexipan one. You can transform this recipe into "island cake" for that replace the wheat flour with cassava flour and add
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