Peaches on Sponge Sandwich

Walking past Four Leaves bakery, I can't help but looked longingly at their Strawberry Shortcake on their display chiller. I love Strawberries with Cream on light sponge cakes. They are so sinfully rich and delicious yet refreshing if you use the right Strawberries. I don't mind if the Strawberries are a little tart with creamy cakes. You don't really get good Strawberries in Singapore's supermarkets all the time. Lately the ones from Korea are widely found in Singapore, besides those from Australia and USA.

Besides Strawberries, Fresh Nectarines are nice too but...

I especially love Peaches in cans.. oh yes, slurpy sweet stuff. Great with ice cream, great with sponge cakes, i am sure. I can almost taste it.

Perhaps it was just too much and high expectations of mine that I spent the whole morning trying so hard to perfect a light sponge.

I made the first too thin, my second was a no no because I forgot to turn the heat knob to 175 deg C. It stayed in the warm oven at 50 deg C for 20 mins and when I went to check, i gasp! Oh why is the cake not ready! Oh Blunder!

My helper said we could use the third one but I told her I wanted to try just one last time, in the afternoon. So there I was, back in the kitchen... Oh i'm running out of eggs... shucks! Last ones..

I baked for the third time... this time, my helper had overturned the cake and left it too long on the parchment paper, the beautiful golden brown top stuck on it...GASP! I wanted to wring a neck now! So I'm now stuck with my first baked sponge sandwich. Bah! What a day it had been.

So I went to get my cream to whip it up... OH NO! I did not have enough cream! GRRRRRRRR.. it's not the right day to bake. So I whipped up whatever that was left and just make do what whatever I had. I had only a little cream left, so I dutifully place the sliced peaches on the cream and topped up with the other sandwich sponge and took a picture here.



See, I only had enough cream at the bottom, then top with peaches and top with sponge. Taste? It was absolutely delicious. That made my day better. Refreshing and really nice. I had no more eggs, or I'll be baking again now.



Peaches on Sponge Sandwich

3 Eggs
70g Caster Sugar
100g Cake Flour, sifted
20g tbsp melted butter
2 tbsp milk

whipped cream
peaches (canned)

1. Grease a springform pan or 2 round pan (6"). Preheat oven to 175C.

2. In a mixing bowl, beat eggs, caster sugar on high speed for about 5 minutes. The mixture should be tripled and becomes a pale colour. If you have a hand held beater, you might want to stand the mixing bowl over a pan of simmering water (40C). Check to make sure the mixture has become thick and is ribbon like. Then beat it for about 2-3 minutes at low speed.

3. Fold one third at a time of the flour into the mixture. Do not beat it but just stir till the flour and batter is mixed. Ladle about a cup of this mixture to mix into the melted butter and milk in the smaller mixing bowl. Once evenly mixed, return this mixture to the main bigger mixing bowl and fold to combine.

4. Pour into the greased pan/s. Bake for about 25 minutes. To loosen the cake, run a knife blade around the pan. Let the cake cool. Slice the cake into two sandwich layers if you only use one pan.

5. Sandwich the cake with whipped cream, lay fresh peaches or other fruits as you would a sandwich bread.