Best-Ever Hot Milk Sponge
Another great basic cake that can be made in different flavours, and dolled up or down for serving.
Makes 1 cake
Ingredients:
- 4 extra-large eggs
- 250 g castor sugar (300 ml)
- 280 g cake flour (500 ml)
- 15 ml baking powder
- 250 ml milk
- 100 g butter or margarine (100 ml)
- 5 ml vanilla essence
Method:
- Preheat oven to 180ºC/160ºC fan/ Gas mark 4.
- Grease the sides and base of 2 x 20 cm cake tins. Line the bases with baking paper rounds, grease again.
- Place eggs and sugar in an electric food mixer bowl, and beat well together until thick and pale yellow in colour.
- Sift dry ingredients: fold in carefully along the side of the bowl with a metal spoon or spatula. Do not over-beat.
- Heat milk and butter together for 2 minutes on 100% power; do not boil.
- Add essence and milk mixture to batter, mixing carefully. Take care not to over-beat, thus stretching the gluten in the flour.
- Pour into prepared cake pans.
- Bake for 20 – 25 minutes until a skewer or cake tester comes out clean.
- Allow cooling for 5 minutes before turning out on a cooling rack.
- When completely cold, sandwich together with raspberry or strawberry jam; and dust surface with sifted icing sugar or make up a vanilla butter icing; sandwich the two cakes together with a little butter icing; frost the top of the cake with remaining icing.
Variations:
- Sandwich together with 250 ml whipped cream and use a chocolate ganache icing on the top.
- Remove 50 ml cake flour, and add 50 ml cocoa powder to make a chocolate sponge.
- Add 30 ml coffee powder to boiling milk mixture for a coffee cake.
- Use fresh fruit and whipped cream for a decadent effect.
Tips:
• A great cake for children´s birthday cakes.
• If baking all in one pan, allow to bake for longer (40 – 45 minutes)
• Cut cakes easily in half with a long thread of dental floss.
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