How to Make the Perfect Sponge Cake Batter

In the USA, they celebrate an interesting holiday on August 23 - Sponge Cake Day. Sponge cake batter, is perhaps the most popular batter used to make various cakes, pastries, revani, petit fours, biscuits, etc.

It is widespread all over the world and is made from eggs, flour and sugar, and in some cases milk is added. If you learn how to make it, you will be able to easily prepare all kinds of desserts. Here are a few options:

Plain sponge cake batter

Required products: 1 cup flour, 6 eggs, 1/2 cup powdered sugar, 1 vanilla.

Preparation method: Beat the yolks and sugar with a mixer until a homogeneous consistency is obtained. If you don't have powdered sugar, you can replace it with regular sugar, but then the mixing time will be longer. Finally, carefully add the flour and vanilla and mix again, but more gently and carefully. Pour everything into a greased baking dish, sprinkled with flour and bake in a preheated oven at 200°C.

Warm sponge cake batter

Ingredients needed: 7 eggs, 1 cup sugar, 180 g flour, 1 packet of butter, vanilla.

Method of preparation: Beat the sugar and eggs as in the recipe above, but in a water bath. Then remove the bowl and while continuously beating, wait for it to cool down a little. Add the melted and cooled butter, flour and vanilla to this mixture and mix again carefully. The resulting mixture is baked in a greased pan, sprinkled with flour in a preheated oven at 200°C.

Dobush sponge cake

Ingredients needed: 6 eggs, 5 yolks, 350 g flour, 350 g sugar, 1 packet of vanilla, 50 g butter, grated lemon peel (optional).

Preparation method: For a smaller amount of sponge cake, reduce the ingredients by half. Beat the sugar, eggs and yolks over the heat until a thick cream is obtained. Remove the saucepan from the heat and, after it has cooled, carefully add the flour, vanilla, melted and cooled butter and, if available, lemon peel to the mixture. Mix everything again carefully and bake it in a greased pan sprinkled with flour in a preheated oven at 200°C.

Try our suggestions for:

- Dobos cake;

- Chocolate sponge cake.

Read more:

- How to make the perfect sponge cake;

- How long does it take to bake a sponge cake.