Recipe: Savoy Cake

Name: Gâteau de savoie
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 8 portions
Ingredients: oeufs 7 de 60 grsucre 250 gfarine 200 glevure 1/2 sachet1 pincée de sel

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Prep 10 min

Cook 40 min

Total 50 min

Servings 8 serv.

Ingredients for 8 servings

eggs 7 of 60 gr
sugar 250 g
flour 200 g
baking powder 1/2 packet
1 pinch of salt

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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