Passover Sponge Cake With Apples
- 1/2 cup matzo cake meal
- 1/4 cup potato starch
- 6 large eggs, separated
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon strained fresh lemon juice
- 1 teaspoon finely grated lemon zest
- Pinch of salt
- 2 Golden Delicious apples (10 to 11 ounces), peeled, cored, and cut into 1/8-inch slices
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon mixed with 1 tablespoon sugar
- Preheat oven to 325F.
- Have ready a 9-inch springform pan; do not grease it.
- Sift cake meal with potato starch into a bowl.
- Beat egg yolks in a large bowl with an electric mixer.
- Beat in 1/2 cup sugar.
- Whip at high speed about 5 minutes or until mixture is pale and very thick.
- Stir in lemon juice and zest.
- In another large clean bowl, beat egg whites and salt with a mixer until soft peaks form.
- Gradually beat in remaining 1/4 cup sugar.
- Beat at high speed until whites are stiff and shiny but not dry.
- Fold cake meal mixture into yolks.
- Lightly fold in whites in 3 batches, just until batter is blended.
- Lightly spoon about one third of the batter in prepared pan.
- Gently cover with half the apples.
- Sprinkle them with 2 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon mixture.
- Top with half the remaining batter, then with the remaining apples, and sprinkle them with the remaining cinnamon mixture.
- Spoon remaining batter over apples and spread gently.
- Bake about 1 hour or until top is firm and a cake tester inserted in cakes center comes out clean.
- Cool in pan on a rack 10 minutes.
- Run a metal spatula carefully around cake.
- Remove sides of pan.
- Cool completely.
- (Cake can be kept, covered, 2 days in refrigerator.)
matzo cake meal, potato starch, eggs, sugar, lemon juice, lemon zest, salt, golden delicious apples, ground cinnamon
Taken from www.cookstr.com/recipes/passover-sponge-cake-with-apples (may not work)