Fruity sweetcorn cake

Total: 1 hr 30 min. | Active: 30 min.
vegetarian

Ingredients

for 16 pieces

Soak the sweetcorn
150 g fine polenta (2 mins.)
tangerines, the whole juice
Batter
125 g butter, soft
150 g coarse cane sugar
1 pinch salt
egg yolks
tangerines, cut into cubes
150 g cream quark
egg whites
1 pinch salt
200 g white flour
1 ½ tsp baking powder
To bake
1 bag dark cake icing (approx. 125 g, melted
30 g salted popcorn

How it's done

Soak the sweetcorn

Place the sweetcorn in a bowl, pour over the tangerine juice, leave to absorb for approx. 5 mins.

Batter

Whisk the butter, sugar and salt in a bowl. Mix in the egg yolks and continue to stir until the mixture turns paler in colour. Stir the tangerines and the quark into the sweetcorn. Beat the egg whites with the salt until stiff. Combine the flour and baking powder, add to the mixture in layers along with the egg whites and carefully fold in using a rubber spatula. Transfer the cake mixture to the prepared cake mould.

To bake

Approx. 1 hr. in the lower half of an oven preheated to 180°C. Remove the cake from the oven, allow to cool a little, remove from the tin and leave to cool on a rack. Place the rack on a sheet of baking paper.

Pour the glaze over the cake, scatter over the popcorn, allow to dry.

Show complete recipe