Easy Cake Recipes

Favourite Lemon Sponge Cake

I bake them almost every other week and sometimes I alternate with other simple dessert recipes. These baking recipes are usually quick easy dessert recipes that are easy to follow and do not take up too much time.

Baking cake requires firstly, the love for baking and then patience. You just need to keep trying the recipes and you will make (bake) it.

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Other varieties include foam cakes, chiffon cakes and generally do not contain much fat as do butter cakes. They are always fluffy and spongy and, as the name itself suggests, derive their structure from the heavily beaten sugary egg foam into which flour and other ingredients are folded.

Sponge-cakes are generally regarded as the first non-yeast-baked cakes and rely largely on beaten eggs and baking powder to give it that majestic rise. A sponge cake which is decorated lavishly is called a gateau, the French term for cake.


Ingredients

9 			        	Medium Eggs; yolks and whites separated
1 cup			        	Castor Sugar
1 1/2 cups 		        	Self-raising Flour; twice sifted 
			        	Grated rind and juice of 1 lemon
1/2 tsp				Vanilla Essence

Method

Cream yolks with 1/2 cup sugar at medium speed until light and creamy.

Now whisk egg whites until stiff peaks form and add remaining sugar gradually. Beat well. Add in yolk mixture slowly until well blended. Stir in lemon rind, juice and vanilla essence.

Fold in gently sifted flour and pour into lined greased baking pan. Bake at 170°C until cake turns light brown. Leave the lemon sponge-cake to stand 5 to 8 minutes before removing from pan.

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