COCONUT SPONGE CAKE Hindistan Cevizli Sungeriye

For the Cake:

1 coffee spoon bicarbonate of soda
25 grams grated coconut
250 grams white cheese
3 whole eggs
35 grams potato starch
50 grams sugar
75 grams flour

For the Syrup:

1 and 1/4 kilos sugar
2 litres water
the juice of 1 lemon

Soak the cheese in water for 2 hours to remove the salt, (if you are using authentic Turkish cheese), then drain thoroughly. Mix the 3 egg yolks, white cheese and soda well.

Beat the egg whites and sugar until they are stiff and able to "peak." Add this to the cheese mixture. Add the flour, starch and coconut. Make a dough.

Spoon walnut sized portions of the dough onto a buttered baking dish or 50 cm. wide buttered cake pan. Place the portions about 4 cm. from each other.

Bake 12 minutes in a medium oven. While the cakes are baking, make a syrup by boiling the water, sugar and lemon juice for 2 hours. Finish the preparation as in the recipe "Cheese Cake". Refer to the last paragraph of the recipe.