Greek Sponge Cake.
You can cook Greek Sponge Cake using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Greek Sponge Cake
- It’s of Eggs.
- You need of Olive Oil.
- It’s of Lemon Zest.
- Prepare of Greek Yogurt.
- Prepare of Caster Sugar.
- You need of Semolina.
- You need of Plain Flour.
- You need of Ground Almonds.
- It’s of Baking Powder.
- It’s of Juice of Lemon.
- Prepare of Honey.
Greek Sponge Cake instructions
- Pre heat oven @ gas mark 5 or 180c. Put the lemon (now zested) and the honey to one side to make the syrup topping later..
- Mix all the other ingredients together in a large bowl until smooth & creamy..
- Add to a medium ceramic or glass baking dish (around 20 by 30 cm), rather than a cake tin..
- Place in the oven for 30-35 minutes until to top have risen slightly in the centre and the colour is light golden brown..
- Leave to cool for an hour..
- With a sharp knife, poke lots of hole in the top of the cake, ready to add the lemon and honey..
- Add the lemon juice and honey in a small pan and heat until the honey has melted with the lemon into a warm liquid. Take a tea spoon and add this to the cake top to give a glaze which will seep into the sponge..
- Leave for another hour before eating so that the syrup can seep into the sponge..