Easy Sponge Cake

"A very easy to prepare sponge cake recipe that I've been baking for 20+ years. A favourite with everyone."
 
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Ready In:
50mins
Ingredients:
7
Serves:
8-10
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ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat oven to 180C (350F).
  • Grease and flour two round 20 cm (8") cake tins using 1 teaspoon castor sugar and 1 teaspoon flour mixed together.
  • Sift dry ingredients together 3 times.
  • Separate egg whites from yolks carefully making sure no yolk is mixed into the white.
  • Beat whites with a pinch of salt until stiff peaks form.
  • Gradually add sugar and yolks one at a time. Add vanilla.
  • Gently fold in the dry ingredients until just barely mixed through.
  • Pour evenly into the 2 tins.
  • Bake for 20-25 minutes.
  • Turn out to cool on racks immediately.
  • When cool, sandwich with jam and whipped cream. Ice and decorate top.

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Reviews

  1. Wonderful easy sponge - this is the very first one I have made that was successful! Thankyou. Jilly 2008
     
  2. WOW, this is THE sponge cake recipe I have been looking for, and I've tried lots. Such an easy recipe too. I filled it with whipped cream and strawberry jam (as suggested, I use fresh chopped strawberries as well when they're in season), and simply dusted with icing sugar. It was better (more moist) the following day and even better the day after! So in the future I will certainly make the cakes a day or two before decorating. Thank you for sharing.
     
  3. This sponge is the best one that I have ever made. Geat recipe and suitable for a gluten-free diet too (provided the cornflour/cornstarch and custard powder are both gluten-free).I have to say that I have always been hopeless when it comes to baking a sponge.....I'm really glad that I tried this one :) Thanks for a great sponge recipe busyozmum.
     
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I was born to migrant (Polish) parents in the western suburbs of Victoria, Australia in the early 60's. I was born to love food. My mother, a talented lady, taught herself to cook after she got married and turned out to be a wonderful cook. People everywhere rave about her meals. I am especially fond of the few traditional Polish dishes she makes. These days that only happens by special request. :o) When I was 18, I married into a Greek/Macedonian family and so my love of food was further expanded and enhanced. Those people can cook! Now married for a 2nd time to a true-blue Aussie guy, I struck gold again with a mother-in-law who was extremely talented in her kitchen. Unfortunately she's too elderly and unwell to weild her wooden spoon these days but I thoroughly enjoy discussing her favourite recipes and perusing her old cook books. Food has always been a huge part of my life. I love all types of cuisines. Hubby and I have 7 kids (his, mine and ours). At present (2010), they are 26, 26, 25, 24, 20, 11 & 9 years old. I get to practice in the kitchen a lot. Sometimes more than I really want to. LOL! The 5 older kids are no longer living at home but phone me with foody requests regularly. I LOVE it when they ask for a favourite dish to be cooked by me. I feel my job has been well done. :o) My 2 younger kids are a Mum's nightmare to feed. I don't know why, but these 2 are by far the pick-iest eaters of the 7. Still, they are asked to try new things regularly and I'm sure one day, they too will have a love of good food as the rest of us do. <img src="http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c105/jewelies/Erica-1-1.jpg"> Australian/New Zealand RECIPE SWAP #22 - November 2008 <img src="http://i26.photobucket.com/albums/c105/jewelies/MullaMulla-1-1.jpg"> Australian/New Zealand RECIPE SWAP #21 - October 2008 <img src=http://i335.photobucket.com/albums/m445/mliss29/vegnswap3/group07kiwi.jpg> Veg*n Swap 3 ~ October 2008 <a href="http://photobucket.com" target="_blank"><img src="http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee267/these2hands/RecipeSwap2.jpg" border="0" alt="Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket"></a>
 
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