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Simple sponge cake

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this cake is realy soft you can use this cake as base for pine apple cake. Just replace the sugar syrup with pine apple juice & chunks, change the way of decoration. Use pieces of pine apple for decoration.

"This was lovely. I added a few drops of red food colouring to give the sponge a pink colour. Perfect for a little girls cake! X" - Maria89

Yield: 8 Ready in 2 hours

Cuisine: EuropeanMain Ingredient: flour

(3.8, 5) 60% would make again (reviews)

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Servings          
Original recipe makes 8
90 gramsflour; sift 2 times
100 gramssugar
4 Eggs
1 tspbaking powder
3 tbsphot water
1 tbspbutter
For sugar syrup:
0.5 cupSugar
0.75 cupWater
1 tspvanilla essance
For decoration:
2 cupsdouble cream
1 cuppowder sugar
15 m&ms; or any decorating candy
1/2 cuprolled fondant pink color

Simple sponge cake Preparation

Preheat oven on 180 c. Line a 7 inch spring form pan. Beat sugar and egg yolk until it falls in slow ribbon when lift the beater. Whip egg whites until stiff peaks. Mix the mixture of yolk and whites. Then add the flour & baking powder and fold gently into batter, don''t over do. At the end mix the mixture of melted butter and water until incoprate. Bake in 7 inch pan at 180 for half an hour or until toothpick come out clean inserted in center.Turn off the oven & let it cool in oven.

Dissolve sugar in boiling water & cool, mix vanilla.

whip cream & sift icing sugar on it & whip until it holds peak.

Cut this sponge in two layers. Brush or drizzle the sugar syrup on both sides of both pieces of sponge. Then dress up one piece with whipped cream place the second piece of sponge and spread whipped cream over all neatly.

roll the fondant cut 1 1/2 inch thick ribbon. Place on the top of cake like cross.Cut another piece like ribbon and give shape like bow, place at the top & decorate with candies or m&m.

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Calories Per Serving: 488
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Simple sponge cake Reviews

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8 months, 2 weeks, 2 days, 1 hours, 40 minutes ago
I don't know why my cake turned out very thin. And it was not spongy and soft at all.I used 7 inch spring form tin as instructed.
1 years, 7 months, 1 weeks, 3 hours, 54 minutes ago
This was lovely. I added a few drops of red food colouring to give the sponge a pink colour. Perfect for a little girls cake! X
1 years, 9 months, 2 weeks, 1 days, 20 hours, 6 minutes ago
me and my daughter made this cake, we changed the design as my daughter loves marshmallows so we frosted the whole thing then sprinkled stars on top of it then placed marshmallows over it as well it went down a treat we will make this again.
2 years, 7 months, 3 weeks, 4 days, 3 hours, 30 minutes ago
i wanna try & make this...whast is 90 gm & 100 gm equivalent to?
...sorry
2 years, 10 months, 1 weeks, 3 days, 20 minutes ago

Tags

  1. group party
  2. European
  3. flour
  4. Kid Friendly
  5. Cream
  6. vanilla
  7. desert
  8. cake
  9. Party

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