I cannot believe it! A whole year has passed since I started blogging. Time flies by so quickly when you’re having fun. When I first started writing, I wanted to share my recipes with my daughters in a convenient way since they would always ask me for help. Then, my eldest son came up with the idea of blogging so that I could post my recipes online one at a time, and eventually write enough to reach my goal of writing my own cook book 🙂

I wouldn’t have thought that blogging would introduce me to such a nice community of fine people as all of you are. You encouraged me a lot with your comments, awards and even the simple Likes. Thank you all for the kind words and positive attitude 🙂

To celebrate the occasion, I decided to bake this angel food cake and to decorate it with pistachios, fruits and chocolate sticks. I share this dedicate this recipe to all of you. Bake it yourself and have a slice on me 😉

Ingredients:

• 6 eggs separated
• 50 grams flour
• 50 grams corn flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla essence
• 3 tablespoons baking powder
• a pinch of salt
• 125 grams sugar
• about one tablespoon butter

Preparation:

• Preheat the oven to 180’C and butter a round cake tin and line it with wax paper
• Whisk the egg whites with a pinch of salt and half the sugar until they form a peak
• In another bowl, whisk the egg yolks with the vanilla and the remaining sugar until yellow pale
• Add the flour and the baking powder to the egg yolk mix, then fold in the egg whites; do not whisk
• Place the batter in the cake tin and bake for about 40 minutes, or until a skewer come out clean

Cream for the icing:

• Mix 200 grams of butter softened with about 2 cups of icing sugar, add a teaspoon of vanilla and mix well

For the decoration:

• When the cake is done, allow to cool on a wire rack then cut horizontally through the middle
• Cover the top of the bottom half with cream the cut some strawberries in half and place them over the cream
• Place the other half on the top then cream the sides and the top of the cake
• Decorate with strawberries and slices of kiwi, sprinkle on the top some ground pistachios
• I also placed some chocolate biscuit sticks along the edge to look like candles 🙂

ET VOILA.. C’EST TOUT! BON ANNIVERSAIRE 🙂