The other day, I was watching Giada de Laurentiis and she was making a lemon, mint cake. I suddenly wanted to try and decided to make my own version of it. So I went to the kitchen and looked to see what we had. Well, we had the lemons, eggs, flour, sugar, salt but no mint. Well, I could improvise. We also had blueberries. Blueberry compote! The cake was super easy and kinda healthy. I started to whip the egg whites and sugar until it formed soft peaks and could stand on their own. Kinda wished I had cream of tartar to help them, so I added a pinch of salt. Then I worked on the egg yolks and beat those with the zest of the lemon, lemon juice, flour and salt. I then folded the egg white mixture into the yolk mixture and beat them together. It smelled so gooood! That went into a pan and in the oven at 350 degrees for 45 minutes.
Whilst that was baking, I made a lemon simple syrup which is just water and sugar and whatever else you put into it. In this case, it was lemon. So I just brought the sugar, water and lemon to a boil and let it cool. I then started on the blueberry compote with a half pint of fresh blueberries, half cup of water, a tablespoon of sugar a bit more lemon. I also brought that to a boil and then to a simmer and then let it cool.
The cake was delicious, it was moist and light, almost like an angel food cake. I put the simple syrup on top to let it soak in and then the blueberry compote and a bit of hand whipped, whipped cream. Yum!
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