perth: the trailer

banana and walnut sponge I

the banana walnut sponge cake

… and its failed cousin, the banana sponge.

notes

• folding well and properly makes a really really big difference (as you can see in the picture of the failed cake) to a sponge cake. kind of duh to most people but apparently it wasn’t, to me. oops
• about 25 minutes was fine
• the walnuts don’t really get distributed well around the cake. must find a way to remedy this
• the cake is still slightly “kueh-ish” around the middle
• should flour the tray on top of buttering/greasing it
• the hand-whipped egg whites might not have been stiff enough

in future…

• consider baking at lower oven temperature (about 165°C or 170°C)
• flour the baking tray
• whip egg whites longer into slightly stiffer peaks?

a musing

man cannot live on hope forever without faith