Basic sponge cake. I love this sponge cake recipe. It's easy and you can make hundreds of different cakes with this base. Do you have any basic cupcake recipe in your blog?
Sandwich the cakes together with jam, lemon curd or whipped cream and berries or just enjoy on its own. This sponge cake can be jazzed up with whipped cream and seasonal fruit. An exceptional, yet simple Vanilla Sponge Cake. You can cook Basic sponge cake using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Basic sponge cake
- Prepare 250 gms of maida.
- You need 100 gms of butter.
- It’s 400 gms of condensed milk.
- It’s 1 tsp of baking powder.
- Prepare 1 tsp of baking soda.
- Prepare 300 ml of water.
- You need 1 tsp of any essence of your choice.
Adapted from a master Cook's Illustrated recipe, this is This is a classic, simple Vanilla Sponge Cake that is made with basic ingredients – eggs, milk. Sponge cakes are one of my favorite desserts. I don't have a huge sweet tooth, so the plain variation is perfectly sweet without being too sweet. If I Can Make a Basic Sponge Cake, You Can Too!
Basic sponge cake step by step
- Sift maida with baking powder and baking soda..
- Grease a baking tin with butter and dust some maida in it. Also preheat the oven to 170°c..
- In a bowl, take butter melt it a little then add condensed milk to it and beat well for 30 seconds or until well incorporated..
- Now add your choice of essence to the butter mix, I have added butterscotch essence..
- Now add the sifted maida to the butter mix and slowly mix everything..
- Now add water and make a smooth pourable batter, and pour it into a baking tin and bake it in a preheated oven for 25-30 minutes over 170°c..
- After 30 minutes check by inserting a toothpick, if it comes out clean the cake is baked. Decorate the cake after cooling it for 2-3 hours with your choice of frosting..
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