SPONGE MINT CAKE WITH LIME CUSTARD

For the sponge cake:

• 3 eggs
• 240 gr sugar
• 130 ml water
• 120 ml extra virgin olive oil
• 250 gr flour
• teaspoon of vanilla extract
• packet of yeast
• 85 gr mint syrup

For the cream:

• 100 gr brown sugar
• 3 eggs
• 500 ml whole milk
• 50 gr flour 00
• grated lime zest

The sponge cake with custard is one of the most loved by young and old, We propose you a tasty mint and lime variant. Thanks to blast chiller Life the sponge cake and custard keep will longer maintaining a more intense taste. During cooling, they aren’t exposed to temperature range from + 65° C and + 10° C where bacteria proliferate resulting in the loss of quality, what happens when we let it cool a product at room temperature.

Preparation of the Sponge Cake:

Assemble the eggs together with the sugar for about 3 minutes, until the mixture is homogeneous. Add the extra virgin olive oil, the water, pour little by little flour vanilla and yeast.

Keep stirring until all ingredients are well incorporated and add flush with mint syrup.

Butter and flour the mold silicone single-dose, pour the mixture over half of each portion.

If you don’t have the mold you can use a small baking pan or muffin moulds

Put in the oven and bake at 180° C for about 40 minutes.

While Sponge cake finished loaf bake precools the blast chiller LIFE at -15° C.

Once cooked, lift it out of the oven and after about 2 minutes put it in the blast chiller LIFE by starting the function  BLAST CHILLING˃ DESSERTS˃ SPONGE CAKE with core probe.

Just culling will be concluded the blast chiller will notify you by means of the characteristic acoustic signal.

Preparation of Lime Custard:

Pour into a mixer the brown sugar, flour, lime zest and blend the all; then add fresh milk and eggs.

When the ingredients are perfectly blended, bake in a water bath for 30 minutes on low heat. Keep stirring to avoid lumps until the cream is ready.

Precools the blast chiller LIFE at -15° C.

Pour the cream into a pan low and select the function BLAST CHILLING˃ DESSERTS˃ CREAMS.

Cycle concluded assembles the disks of sponge cake with lime cream and decorate the dish to taste.

Enjoy your meal!