Sponge Cake

 

I had tried many different recipes for sponge cake and it was never a success for me. I had lost hope in making this cake and by chance i landed up in a blog "Veena's Art of Cakes". I am a huge fan of baking either it be cakes, cookies or any normal dishes. I always think that what can i bake today in my microwave...Iam that big fan.

Coming back to Veena's blog...Its so amazing to see how she decorates her cakes. Her blog is definitely a school for all who love to bake and is a novice in baking cakes. When i saw the recipe for sponge cake in her blog, i felt it to be very easy to make. I thought, one last time, i will try out this cake.

My daughter's exams were going on, so i kept a bookmark on the recipe to try it out later. She told me that on the day her exams ended, she would like me to bake a special cake for her. So i thought i will bake her this cake. 

On the day her exams ended, i tried out this recipe and to my surprise, it came out excellent, awesome.....I was fed up trying different recipes for a sponge cake, lost hope and when at last it came out absolutely right, i was feeling top of the world - like i had climbed Mount Everest. I think you can understand why i felt so...

How to describe this cake??...mmm.....It was very soft, spongy, melt in mouth and of course tasty. My daughters were very happy and they enjoyed the cake a lot. It was finished within an hour. I had to hide two pieces for my husband to taste. 
 
I thanked Veena a lot when i was enjoying the cake with my family. I will be trying more of her cake recipes in future...So stay tuned guys, u have lots of cake recipes coming up in near future.
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Friends, Come Close.......................this picture is tempting, isnt it?

 
Recipe Source: Veena's Art Of Cakes

Ingredients

230 gms Self Rising Flour (check the notes)
1 1/2 tsp Baking powder
230 gms Butter (unsalted, room temperature)
200 gms Sugar (powdered)
4 Eggs
2 tsp Vanilla essence


Method

• Sieve self rising flour and baking powder. Keep this aside.
• In a bowl, beat butter and sugar till creamy in texture using an electric hand beater.
• Add eggs and vanilla essence. Beat again till everything is combined properly.
• Now add flour + baking powder mixture into it little by little and mix nicely using a wooden spoon.
• Pre-heat oven at 170 degree Celsius in convection mode.
• Grease a cake tin with butter and line a butter paper in it.
• Pour the prepared cake batter in it 
• Place the cake tin in the pre-heated oven for 35 - 45 minutes. Check in between with a tooth pick, whether cooked or not.
• Once it is cooked, give a standing time of 5 minutes.
• Later, take off from the cake tin and let it cool on a wire rack.
• Once cooled, cut into pieces and serve.

Notes: 

• Self Rising Flour can be bought from stores.
• It can be made at home also with the All purpose flour/Maida.
• For 1 cup Self Rising Flour...Substitute is....

Remove 2 tbsp flour from 1 cup All Purpose Flour/Maida and add 1 tsp Baking powder + 1/4 tsp Salt

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