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Cakes

Three sponge cake layers

From
Sigga í Runnum
Oven
200 °C200 °C (400 °F)
Tin
26 cm10 in

Ingredients

  • 5 eggs
  • 170 g sugar6 oz sugar
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 125 g plain flour and potato starch (125 g in all. The split is not given; for example 65 g flour + 60 g potato starch, going by the brown version.)4½ oz plain flour and potato starch (125 g in all. The split is not given; for example 65 g flour + 60 g potato starch, going by the brown version.)
  • 1 tbsp water

Method

  1. Heat the oven to 200°C (fan). Grease 26 cm round cake tins and line the bases with baking paper.Heat the oven to 400 °F (fan). Grease 10 in round cake tins and line the bases with baking paper.
  2. Whisk the eggs, sugar and water together until very thick and pale.
  3. Sift the flour, potato starch and baking powder together and fold in gently with a spatula.
  4. Divide the batter between the tins and bake on the bottom shelf.
  5. Bake for 11 minutes at 200°C (fan).Bake for 11 minutes at 400 °F (fan).
  6. Let the layers cool in the tins for a little while before turning them out.

Notes

  • Brown (chocolate) layers: exactly the same, but use 50 g potato starch, 10 g cocoa powder and 65 g flour.Brown (chocolate) layers: exactly the same, but use 2 oz potato starch, ½ oz cocoa powder and 2½ oz flour.
  • The layers sink quite a bit as they cool.

As she wrote it
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3 svampbotnar
(Sigga í Runnum)
5 egg - 170 gr. sykur - 1 tsk. lyftiduft 125 gr. hveiti + kart.mjöl - 1 msk. vatn
Brúnir botnar: Alveg sama nema (50 gr. Kart.mj. + 10 gr. kakó + 65 hveiti)
Baka neðst (í 2x26 cm. form.) Baka í 11 min. á blæstri. 200°C Láta kólna smá stund í forminu Fellur talsvert.