The Mirror Cake experiment - or The Great Vicky Baker Off Wk1

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Hello again. We're taking a bit of a break from Market Day Posts to bring you The Great Vicky Baker Off. For fans of the Great British Bake Off, you'll understand this reference, for those who aren't familiar with the show (currently only running on the other side of the pond, but hugely popular - really any baker who is even passingly familiar

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Some cakes are best made with a traditional butter-cake recipe, and others with genoise. (If you saw my most recent cake, it required butter cake for structural purposes.) I like the way a simple tweak of the syrup can add subtle nuances of flavor to a genoise. And in Baking With Julia, there's a recipe that's made with the technique of a genoise, but it comes out with the texture of a pound cake. I also like classic pound cake, of course... and sometimes I even like a basic sponge cake (just eggs, sugar, and flour