{"id":42,"date":"2014-03-17T16:02:01","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T16:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/food\/?p=42"},"modified":"2015-03-20T10:41:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T10:41:40","slug":"the-best-sponge-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/food\/the-best-sponge-cake\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Sponge Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The perfect sponge cake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It is so interesting how the basics can be so hard to get right some times. I always tell people that dessert is my specialty. Almost every potluck, that is what I make and people are usually drooling. And yet, I’ve always had trouble with getting one simple thing right – the sponge cake. Somehow, something goes wrong.<\/p>\n

Not that I need to make sponge cakes too often anyway, since I tend to make cakes more than pastries. Still, some dishes just cannot do away with this basic item.<\/p>\n

It pays to have friends who cook. When a friend told me she had made a sponge cake as soft as the ones you get in bakeries, I was itching to know what she googled for. Where did she find a recipe so unique? ‘I searched for best sponge cake’, she said. Ah. Now why did I never think of that?<\/p>\n

Preparation time : 20 min Baking time : 35 – 40 min
\nMakes one 9 inch sponge cake<\/p>\n

Ingredients:<\/h5>\n

1 cup refined flour
\n1 cup cornflour
\n1\u00bd cups sunflower oil
\n4 eggs
\n1 cup confectioner’s sugar
\n1 tsp baking powder
\n1 tsp soda bicarbonate
\n\u00bd tsp vanilla essence<\/p>\n

Method:<\/h5>\n

Grease a 9″ diameter baking tin and dust it with flour. Pre heat the oven to 180\u00b0C.<\/p>\n

Sieve together flour, cornflour, baking powder and soda bicarbonate.<\/p>\n

Mix oil and sugar, and beat in the eggs. Add the vanilla essence.<\/p>\n

Add the flour to the batter till all the maida a little at a time, mixing in well so that no lumps form.<\/p>\n

Pour the batter into the baking tin and bake in the preheated oven for 35-40 minutes or till the tooth pick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.<\/p>\n

Remove from oven, cool for a while. Loosen sides of cake, using a knife if necessary. Turnout over a wire rack\/plate<\/p>\n

This cake can be used in several ways, and makes a great base for gateaux or trifle puddings. Or, just serve it with some custard and fruits!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is so interesting how the basics can be so hard to get right some times. I always tell people that dessert is my specialty. Almost every potluck, that is what I make and people are usually drooling. And yet, I’ve always had trouble with getting one simple thing right – the sponge cake. Somehow, … Continue reading The Best Sponge Cake<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,11,2],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-42","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-basics-of-cooking","category-desserts","tag-cake"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Tz6f-G","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ashwita.com\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}