How To Make Genoise (Sponge Cake)

Ingredients

• 9 eggs
• 9oz granulated sugar
• 9oz cake flour
• 3 oz vegetable oil
• 0.25 oz vanilla extract

Instructions

1. 1Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
2. 2Crack 9 eggs into a stand mixer bowl, add 9oz of granulated sugar. Whisk until well mixed.
3. 3Heat egg/sugar mixture over a double boiler until it reaches 120 degrees F.
4. 4Place heated mixture into stand mixer with whisk attachment, and whip on high speed for 5 minutes.
5. 5Stabilize foam on medium high speed 10 minutes.
6. 6Grease (2) 8 inch cake pans.
7. 7Sift 9oz of cake flour into the egg foam, fold gently.
8. 8Sacrifice a small amount of batter into 3oz vegetable oil, and a quarter ounce of vanilla. Mix vigorously, then add mixture to batter, and fold until homogeneous.
9. 9Divide batter evenly amongst the two cake pans.
10. 10Bake at 325 F for 26 minutes, or until cake springs back when touched gently.
11. 11Flip cakes upside down onto a sheet pan lined with parchment paper to cool. After an hour, release from the pans.