Valentines Cake

Happy valentines everyone,,,,,❣️💓💛🧡💜💝❤️💗💘💚💖💕💙💟💐 this time I share this lovely, girly, pretty pinky cake,,,, I saw this in internet that’s why I decided to make this Valentine’s Day… I used vanilla sponge cake, and whipping cream for the filling, then covered with the strawberry pocky pretzel….strawberry smell is very strong in this cake…..hmmmmm so lovely…

INGREDIENTS:

For the sponge cake:

110 grams cake flour
4 egg yolks
40 melted butter
1/2 tsp baking powder
50 grams white sugar
45 ml whole milk
1 tsp vanilla extract

For the Meringue:

4 egg whites
50 grams white sugar
1 tsp lemon juice/white vinegar

For the filling:

1 1/2 cup whipping cream
3 tbsp powdered sugar
1 box strawberry pocky pretzels( for decoration)

METHOD:

Pre heat the oven at 180 C, line the 6 inch round baking pan with parchment paper.
Combine the cake flour and baking powder, then set aside. In medium bowl whisk the egg yolks, sugar, butter, vanilla extract and milk to combine. Then add the flour mixture gradually mix until no more lumps.
Beat the egg whites until foamy, the add the lemon juice mix well and gradually add the sugar beat until stiff peaks forms.
Then slowly fold 1/3 of the Meringue at a time to the batter until they incorporate. Transfer the batter into the prepared pan, then tap few time to release the air bubbles trapped within.
Bake for about 1 hour or until when the toothpick comes out clean. Immediately removed from the oven and let it cool completely.
Then beat the whipping cream until thickened and slowly add the powder sugar beat until it doubled in size.
Assemble the cake, at the cake board layer the cake into 3 layer apple filling each layer then covered all around the cake before decorate let the cake chilled for about 30 minutes, when it’s done measure the height of the cake then cut the excess of the pocky pretzel, the covered all around the cake
Then decorate the remaining whipping cream on the top and add some gold sprinkles. Then chilled for a while and ready to served.