Savoie cake

 Ingredients  

• 6 eggs
• 200g caster sugar
• 75g plain flour
• 75g cornflour
• 1 unwaxed lemon (for zest)
• some butter (to grease the tin)
• icing sugar  

 METHOD

• Preheat the oven to gas mark 4 (180°C).
• Separate the egg whites from the yolks. Add the sugar to the yolks and beat well until the mixture becomes pale and fluffy.
• Add the flour and cornflour, and finally the lemon zest.
• Beat the egg whites until very stiff and fold them gently into the mixture.
• Grease a high-sided baking tin and pour in the cake mix.
• Bake in the oven for 40-45 minutes (test by piercing the cake with a skewer, which should come out clean).
• Turn the cake out of the tin and leave it to cool on a wire rack. Sprinkle with icing sugar before serving. 

selon Carine Veyrat