Japanese Cotton Sponge cake with fresh cream
When I was living in Bangkok decades ago I used to love patisserie at a Japanese Bakery called Yamazaki . I have a vivid memory that cakes I consumed from Yamazaki was so divine - the softness, the slightly sweet and creamy topping - they also looked as beautiful as the taste. When I moved to the UK, I found Victoria sponge cake and the rest of the cakes you get here were very heavy and ultra sweet. And I dreamt and I wished I could have one of those cakes at Yamazaki again. The thing is, those days I didn't know what it was called - I tried to explain to people how light and delicate it was - my friends who baked had tried and tried to bake sponge cakes for me to try but none of them remotely resemble my Japanese's Yamazaki cakes All these years, I have been haunted by the memory of the cakes I once had. And that memory seems to polish the experience to become almost mythical. Recently, I found a cooking video on YouTube, someone baking a cake that I felt it could be wh...
