Kitchen Notebook
Chapter V · Cakes & Desserts

Sponge Cake with Orange Curd Cream

A sponge soaked in brandy and orange juice, under a cottage cheese cream with banana and orange, topped with fruit and jelly.

Steps

  1. 1. Bake the sponge at 180 °C and soak it with brandy or liqueur mixed with orange juice.

  2. 2. Dissolve the gelatine in the warm orange juice.

  3. 3. In a blender, whisk the cottage cheese with sugar, then add the whipped cream, bananas, zest and the gelatine with juice, whisking after each.

  4. 4. Spread the cottage cheese layer over the sponge.

  5. 5. Top with fruit and pour cake jelly over.