Sponge cake with simple syrup and some fancy ice cream
Going back to my classic cookbook by James McNair, this one is called an American Sponge cake. At Heather’s suggestion, I soaked it in a raspberry simple syrup to accompany her Rasberry sorbet.
We’re heading into barbecue season, not that the weather in Vancouver is showing it, so we decided to bring this dessert to the first one of the year. I think the sponge cake is something that really needs to be served with something and I’m not sure that a frosting is quite right for it. The simple syrup was good with it and it’s very light.
There isn’t much else to say about this one. It wasn’t my favourite cake, but maybe I could learn to like it more if I topped it with something else. The real treat for this evening were the other desserts: Heather’s raspberry sorbet (pictured above); Heather’s vanilla, honey goat’s milk ice cream (also pictured above); and the brownies by Keith and Michelle (not pictured).