Sponge Kisses Recipes

Steps:

• Heat the oven to 200°C Line a baking tray with baking paper.
• In a bowl double sift the flours, cream of tartar, baking soda. Set aside.
• Divide the sugar into 4 parts. Separate the eggs and place the whites in a large bowl and beat to soft peaks.
• With beaters rotating add a 1/4 of the sugar add beat until glossy. Repeat with remaining sugar. Whisk in the egg yolks one at a time.
• Sift the dry ingredients one last time over the egg mix. Fold in gently until just incorporated.
• Drop heaped teaspoonful onto the baking sheets, leaving room between so they can spread. Bake until lightly golden, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove to a rack to cool.
• Whip cream with sugar then add vanilla. Spread half the cakes with jam and cream then top with a cake.
• Set aside for 2 hours. When ready to serve sprinkle with icing sugar.

Steps:

• Heat oven to 200c/400f/gas mark 6. Grease a baking tray.
• Break eggs into bowl, whisk lightly, add sugar and whisk well until thick, creamy almost white in colour.
• Lightly fold in flour. Place small spoonfuls, well apart, on baking tray and bake for 5 min.
• When cold sandwich together with jam and cream.

Steps:

• Caramel:
• Melt sugar in a saucepan and heat until it is a light coffee colour; cool a little.
• Add the hot milk and dissolve caramel in it.
• Kisses:.
• Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, about 5-8 minutes.
• Add lukewarm caramel and egg yolks.
• Beat until combined.
• Stir in the dry ingredients with a spoon.
• Lastly fold in stiffly-beaten egg whites.
• Either pipe [pastry bag] onto lightly greased baking trays or spoon onto trays using rounded teaspoonsful.
• Bake about 9 - 12 minutes at 190ºC (375ºF).
• When cold sandwich together -- .