If you are bored with the simple sponge cake recipes you have, give these a try! You can easily use them for building a storey cake. I have just tried it. I used one layer of each, a marcipan layer, a chocolate nougat layer and milk chocolate mousse as cover. Did anyone say calories? Enjoy baking!

It is late at night and the stars are so shiny outside, I spent like half an hour just staring at them...and listening to the night birds. I completely forgot about everything else, but at least the cakes had time to cool down, which I still find difficult to wait for. When everything is ready, I am ready, and just waiting... But, patience is half the success, as I learnt.

I write the most important thing, as I always do. Without quality, fair and clean ingredients, despite your efforts, you will fail. Even if not in taste morally, ethically for sure. You cannot avoid paying for ingredients. You cannot make food from ingredients which no one cared for. You cannot make food from ingredients which cause suffering, pollution and injustice. We cannot "just" bake a cake, but we can bake a cake responsibly and then, but only then we can still call ourselves human.

Ingredients for the almond cake

150 g grounded almonds

150 g icing sugar

215 g egg white (5-6 eggs)

37 g butter

3 g baking powder

Mix everything together and bake for 15-20 minutes on a 170 degrees. Be careful, it likes to burn. This cake has a divine marcipan taste, do not to eat it (the whole) by itself. It can be used for Zuppa Inglese, or cut it half and fill it with a lemon mousse or a chocolate mousse or a...???

Ingredients for the chocolate cake

150 g dark chocolate

50 g grounded walnut

100 g sugar

5 eggs

pinch of salt

Originally this was for swiss roll, so feel free to make that too. I think the best is when you fill it only with whipped cream (obv. with a little bit of sugar). In this case keep the sponge cake "wet" until you use it. You don't need to do anything else, but cover with a baking paper a slightly wet kitchen towel. Whip, fill, roll, done. Delicious in its simplicity.

Melt the chocolate over a water bath (chocolate should never be heated up more than 45 degrees). Whisk the yolks with the sugar, whip the whites. Add the walnut and the melted chocolate to the sugar mixture. Gently mix the ingredients with a spatula, finally add the egg whites. Bake it on a 180 degrees for 20-25 minutes.

I am not the only one, who cannot travel right now, so I can not give this to my mom for her birthday. Mom! Cake is made, waiting in the freezer for a better moment. Enjoy every second of this not expected holiday and happy Birthday!