A simple recipe for sponge cake with berries

The amount of ingredients is measured by eye, so you do not have to mess around with the kitchen scales.

Ingredients

For the dough:

• 4 eggs;
• slightly smaller cup sugar (200 g);
• slightly smaller cups flour;
• a pinch of salt;
• teaspoon baking soda or baking powder;
• vanilla sugar (optional).

Cream and sweets:

• packet of sour cream (350 g), fat content - 15%;
• cocoa taste;
• sugar to taste;
• berries.

preparation

Take a little less eye cup sugar. The author has to do is fit the old Soviet glass in which is placed 220 grams of sugar. Accordingly, a little less than glass - about 200 g

Gently separate the proteins from the yolks. Whisk proteins with a pinch of salt and sugar for the most part to a stable foam. This will depend on how well and lush get biscuit. But if the peaks did not work, it does not matter. The main thing is that the sugar is well dissolved.

Proteins to be whipped, they must necessarily be chilled. And it is inconceivable that they got a little egg yolk.

Separately, whisk the egg yolks and the remaining sugar, it is possible with the addition of vanilla sugar or vanillin. Take the time to thoroughly mix the yolks with the sugar: up to lightening weight and complete dissolution of the crystals. Otherwise, get a biscuit with sugar crust.

Pour the mixture into a protein yolks and mix gently whisk or spatula. And now one more secret to success biscuit flour to sift. Right on the container with the eggs put a sieve and pass through it a little less cups of flour mixed with baking powder.

Knead the flour with the eggs, this time turn the oven. Lubricate the form of butter or margarine and pour the batter into it. When the oven heats up to 180 degrees, put it in shape.

In a conventional gas oven, where the heating comes only from the bottom, you can set a timer for 50-60 minutes. In an electric furnace with heating elements and the bottom and top ispechotsya faster - 30-40 minutes. You probably know better how much time is required biscuit in your oven.

Important: during cooking, do not open the oven to cake does not "fall". If time is suffering, do not open it and immediately after turning off the stove. Let remains within 20 minutes.

While cake cools, you can prepare any filler. As an option - sour cream with berries or fruits and chocolate fudge. Are perfect banana and kiwi, raspberries or currants, but tastes best combination of sour cream and a cherry.

In any capacity lay most of the cream, add sugar - cream is ready. Sponge cake, cut horizontally into two parts. If you have the juice from the berries, you can pour it bottom cake. Then smear his sour cream, spread the berries, then cover with the top layer of sponge cake.

to prepare sweet in a saucepan pour a little less than half of the sour cream package, add the sugar and cocoa taste. If you like the bitter sweet, you can put two tablespoons of sugar and four - cocoa. Put on a little fire and stir constantly so as not to stick to the bottom. Do not bring to a boil, but good warm up to mass became more liquid and the sugar has dissolved, then remove from heat.

Pour cake on top and sweet, if you wish, garnish.

Cake will still taste better if you give it to soak in the refrigerator, but this rarely happens. :)