Sponge Cake ( with step-wise pictures)

Sponge Cake ( with step-wise pictures)

Its the basic cake. It has a well aerated structure similar to sea sponge. Hence the name. Recipe is quite simple. It just includes the basic baking ingredients. This is the best cake for beginners to start with.

Ingredients:

Dry Ingredients:

All Purpose Flour.   - 1cup
Baking Powder.      - 2 tsp

Others:

Sugar.                    - 1 cup
Cold Milk.               -1/4 cup
Egg.                      - 2
Butter.                   -1 tbsp
Vannila essence.    - 1/2 tsp

Procedure:

Sieve all dry ingredients together. . Powder sugar.  Separate yolks in eggs.

Take a bowl. Add white yolk. Whisk for some time. When it becomes fluffy add half of the sugar. Continue whisking for 3-4 minutes till it become very fluffy.

Take another bowl.. add yellow yolk.. whisk it. After some time add remaining sugar.. continue till the sugar gets dissolved. .

Now add 1/3 rd of white mix to the yellow
mix followed by flour. Mix it well with spatula. . Don't overbeat.. just rotate your hand.

Repeat the above process for another 2 times.
Add cold milk and vannila essence. Stir the batter.

Add butter to the corner of the bowl and mix it

Preheat oven to 180 degree celsius.

Apply butter to cake pan. Dust it with flour. Remove the excess., add batter to pan. Bake it for 25-30 minutes. 

And your cake is ready!!!

Quick Tips:

1. The fluffiness of the cake depends on the time you beat egg.. so beat it well
2. Eggs should be in room temperature. . So take  the egg out from fridge atleast before 30 minutes.
3. And the bowl and the blender should be very clean. It shouldn't have any butter or fat. Otherwise egg white won't fluff.

Can serve the cake topped with Dusting Sugar, Jam or even with Icing.. The plain cake itself is very tasty.Here is a picture of cake served with dusting sugar.

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