Sponge cake with protein cream and banana

1. This recipe does not provide for the separation of eggs into whites and yolks, so just break the eggs into a deep bowl, pour sugar and beat the mass until it increases in volume three times.

Sift the flour into a separate bowl, then sift the almond flour here, mix gently. Pour the flour mixture to the egg mixture, mix well.

We put the butter in a bowl and send it to the microwave. Add the melted butter to the dough and mix again.

2 cakes will come out of the resulting dough (in a shape with a diameter of 16 cm). Bake biscuits at 180 degrees for 25 minutes. We check the readiness with a toothpick or a wooden skewer: after piercing the cake, it should remain dry.

2. Prepare the cream. To do this, beat the cooled proteins with white sugar. The mass should increase well in volume. Add citric acid and whisk again.

Next, prepare a water bath: pour water into a saucepan with a suitable diameter (a bowl with proteins should be placed on top, but should not sink and touch the water), boil. We set a bowl with a protein mass and whisk until there are no furrows from the whisk on the cream. The cream should become quite thick and heavy. Remove the bowl from the heat and continue to whisk until the cream cools completely. This protein cream holds its shape perfectly and is suitable not only for cakes, but also for cakes.

3. This syrup will serve as an impregnation for us:
- combine sugar with water, send it to the fire, bring the syrup to a boil;
- cool, add liqueur and cognac, mix.

4. Cut the cakes in half. Each cake is soaked with syrup, smeared with cream. On top of the cream we spread bananas, cut into thin rings. Thus we collect the cake. We coat the masterpiece with the remaining protein cream and send it to the refrigerator for half an hour.

Now the cake can be decorated to your taste, for example, you can prepare a glaze, pour the cake and put popcorn on top. But it is possible in a completely different way - to your taste. As a decoration for such a cake, anything will do.

Put the decorated cake in the refrigerator for 2 hours.

Happy holidays!