Snacks & baking

Genoise

Genoise is a basic cake of French pastry, light and fluffy, made by whisking whole eggs with sugar before adding flour. It serves as a base for many desserts and is flavored with vanilla or lemon.

50 min
8 servings
Medium
Budget-friendly
🇫🇷 France

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Ingredients

Spices & seasoning

Lemon zest

Optional extras

2 tbsp Apricot jam

On the side

Whipped cream

Nutrition facts

199 kcal per serving

Protein: 5.3 g
Carbohydrates: 26.3 g
of which sugars: 15.9 g
Fat: 7.8 g
Fiber: 0.5 g

Ecomely’s estimate, calculated from the ingredients with the ANSES Ciqual food composition table, excluding sides and seasoning added to taste.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 180 °C and butter and flour a 20 cm round pan.
In a large bowl, whisk the eggs, sugar, scraped vanilla and salt over a lukewarm bain-marie until the mixture is foamy and pale.
Off the bain-marie, keep whisking for 5 to 8 minutes until the batter forms a ribbon and falls back slowly.
Sift the flour little by little over the mixture and gently fold it in with a spatula.
Add the lukewarm melted butter in a thin stream, folding lightly so as not to deflate the air bubbles.
Pour the batter into the pan and bake for 25 to 30 minutes, until a skewer comes out dry.
Unmold onto a rack and let cool completely before decorating.