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Best-Ever Hot Milk Sponge

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:

  1.  Preheat oven to 180ºC/160ºC fan/ Gas mark 4.
  2. Grease the sides and base of 2 x 20 cm cake tins. Line the bases with baking paper rounds, grease again.
  3.  Place eggs and sugar in an electric food mixer bowl, and beat well together until thick and pale yellow in colour.
  4. Sift dry ingredients: fold in carefully along the side of the bowl with a metal spoon or spatula. Do not over-beat.
  5.  Heat milk and butter together for 2 minutes on 100% power; do not boil.
  6.  Add essence and milk mixture to batter, mixing carefully. Take care not to over-beat, thus stretching the gluten in the flour.
  7.  Pour into prepared cake pans.
  8.  Bake for 20 – 25 minutes until a skewer or cake tester comes out clean.
  9.  Allow cooling for 5 minutes before turning out on a cooling rack.
  10. 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:

  1. Sandwich together with 250 ml whipped cream and use a chocolate ganache icing on the top.
  2. Remove 50 ml cake flour, and add 50 ml cocoa powder to make a chocolate sponge.
  3. Add 30 ml coffee powder to boiling milk mixture for a coffee cake.
  4. 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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