Vanessa Three-Layer Cake
A three-layer sponge cake with brown (cocoa), white and yellow batters. The source also gives an alternative version with a poppy-seed layer, a white layer and a yellow layer.
Ingredients
| 1 1/2 cups | 360 ml | sugar |
| 7 | eggs | |
| 1 1/2 cups | 360 ml | flour |
| 6 tbsp | 90 ml | oil |
| 3 tbsp | 45 ml | cocoa |
| 1 | vanilla essence | |
| 1 | OR — for the poppy-seed dough: egg | |
| 50 g | sugar (poppy-seed dough) | |
| 50 ml | fresh milk (poppy-seed dough) | |
| 50 g | flour (poppy-seed dough) | |
| 150 g | ground poppy seeds | |
| 1/2 tsp | 2.5 ml | baking powder (poppy-seed dough) |
| 120 g | candied cherries (optional) | |
| 2 | For the white mix: egg whites | |
| 50 g | sugar (white mix) | |
| 50 g | flour (white mix) | |
| 1/2 tsp | 2.5 ml | baking powder (white mix) |
| 1 tbsp | 15 ml | coconut flakes |
| 1 | For the yellow mix: egg | |
| 2 | egg yolks (yellow mix) | |
| 50 g | sugar (yellow mix) | |
| 100 g | flour (yellow mix) | |
| 1/2 tsp | 2.5 ml | baking powder (yellow mix) |
| 50 ml | fresh milk (yellow mix) | |
| 1 tbsp | 15 ml | candied orange peel |
| 1 | vanilla (yellow mix) |
Instructions
- Beat 4 yolks and 3 eggs together with 1 cup sugar and 4 tbsp oil. (I use 3.) Add 1 cup flour by sprinkling, stirring the mixture with a wooden spoon. Set aside 1/3 of this yellow mixture and add 2 tbsp cocoa to it. Stir until the mixture turns brown.
- For the white mixture, the egg whites should be at room temperature so the mixture increases in size 2-3 times — in general the eggs should not be cold. Beat 4 egg whites to stiff peaks, add 1/2 cup sugar and 2 tbsp oil. Add 1/2 cup flour by sprinkling and stirring with a wooden spoon. Grease the baking pan with butter. First pour in the brown mixture. Sprinkle a fine, thin layer of cocoa over it — there must be no spots left without cocoa.
- Pour in the white mixture, sprinkle with cocoa. Finally pour in the yellow mixture. Bake as you would other sponge cakes.
(Alternative version — poppy-seed dough, white mix, yellow mix — with the quantities listed in the ingredients.)