Basic Sponge Cake

Looking for an easy cake recipe?? Here you go.. this is a failproof recipe which yields utterly butterly sponge cake. 

I have also added video recipe in Tamil too.. Happy cooking.. Try this cake and lemme know how this cake turned out .😁

Ingredients:

Maida                   -2 cups
Sugar                    - 1 cup
Butter                   - 1 cup
Egg                        - 5
Baking powder   - 1/2 TSP
Baking soda         - 1/4 TSP
Salt                        - a pinch
Milk                       - 1/3 cup
Vannila essence  - 1/2 tsp

Procedure:

You can check here for video recipe in tamil 

Sieve Maida, Baking powder, Baking soda and salt together.

Powder sugar.

Butter should be at room temperature when are about to whisk it so take butter from fridge and keep it out for 2 hours before you are going to prepare cake.

There should be some chillness in eggs when you are whisking it. So take the eggs out from fridge just before 30 minutes

Take Butter and powdered sugar in a deep pan. Blend them together till both gets mixed well .

Now add eggs one by one and keep on whisking it .Whisk till the batter becomes creamy and fluffy.

After that add seived dry ingredients in small instances and blend everything together.

Now add milk and vanilla essence. Your cake batter is now ready.

Preheat oven to 180 degree Celsius.  Pour cake batter into greased cake pan and bake for 30 to 40 minutes.

Insert a toothpick in the baked cake. If it comes out clearly, (i.e no wet pieces of cake should come with it) you can take the cake from oven .

Cut into pieces after the cake cools down completely.

Very easy isn't it?? Enjoy your utterly butterly delicious sponge cake .🎉🎊 . Happy cooking..

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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