Vanilla Duvet Cake – fluffy and light cheesecake and sponge cake
Soft and light cheesecake and sponge cake perfect with fresh seasonal fruit. Duvet cake, quilt cake or pillow cake recipe.
Ingredients
Ricotta cream
- 600 g ricotta cheese
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- ½ lemon (only the zest)
- 70 g white sugar
- 2 medium eggs at room temperature
Soft sponge cake
- 5 medium eggs at room temperature
- 200 g white sugar
- 125 ml vegetable oil (I used mixed seeds oil)
- 125 ml sparkling water
- 15 g baking powder
- 320 g all-purpose flour
- 1 lemon (only the zest)
- powdered sugar for decoration
Instructions
Instructions Vanilla Duvet Cake – fluffy and light cheesecake and sponge cake
- Separate the egg whites from the yolks. Put the egg yolks and sugar in a bowl. Beat with a mixer at maximum speed for 5 minutes until you have a light and fluffy mass.
- Add water and oil and mix on low speed. Now add lemon zest and the sifted flour and baking powder. Stir briefly just to mix the ingredients.
- Whip the egg whites until stiff and incorporate them delicately into the batter with movements from top to bottom.
- Line a 42x30 cm rectangular pan with baking paper. Transfer the batter to the pan and level it. Now prepare the ricotta cream.
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Ricotta cream
- Separate the egg whites from the yolks.
- Put ricotta, sugar, vanilla extract, lemon zest and egg yolks in a bowl. Mix together to combine. Whisk the egg whites until stiff and gently fold them into the cheese mass with a spatula. Prepare the ricotta cream just before putting it on the cake.
- Put the cream in a piping bag and draw your lines over the base so that after baking it will seem the texture of a quilt.
- Bake in the preheated static oven at 180 °C for 35 - 40 minutes or until the toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Remove from the oven and let it cool completely before decorating with powdered sugar.
Notes
The nutritional values are generated automatically for indicative purposes only and are therefore not completely accurate.
Nutrition
Serving: 1panCalories: 400kcal
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