How To Cook The Secret To Making Fluffy Sponge Cake - Part One - Recipe

Sponge cake is one of the most useful types of pastry. It is on the menu of many special diets, as it uses a minimal amount of flour, fat is rarely added, and soda is not added at all.

Sponge cake delicacies are allowed in small quantities even to people who are struggling with excess weight. The light, fluffy and sweet dessert, prepared properly, just melts in your mouth. It has a light brown thin crust, golden inner part and delicate aroma.

How to cook?

Making a fluffy sponge cake is not complicated at all, if you follow some recommendations.

The main ingredients for such dough are flour, sugar and eggs. Sometimes the flour is partially replaced by starch. Different essences are added for flavor: rum, lemon, orange, vanilla or vanilla sugar. Other additives are also used.

Some housewives believe that it is necessary to put soda in the dough. This is a mistake, because the sponge cake gets airy and fluffy because of the air bubbles that form during prolonged beating of eggs or eggs with sugar.

In addition to the products listed above, you also need a mixer, oven, absolutely clean and dry measuring cup (but not metal), pot or deep frying pan, tray, baking paper, spoon and knife.

The process ...

The ways of preparation depend on what kind of sponge cake you want to make: for the base of the cake / pastry or for cookies and a roll. This one for cakes is also called "hot". It gets this name because the egg mass is heated at the beginning. Cakes and pastries are made from such marshmallows.

The sponge cake for biscuits, cupcakes and rolls is called "bushe". It is made by cold technology with separate breaking of the whites and yolks.

All products must be prepared in advance, as the process itself is continuous. The oven needs to be preheated when you are done with the dough.

Recipe for cake sponge cake (for 500 grams of finished product) :

290 grams of egg mixture

175 grams of granulated sugar

140 grams of flour

35 grams of starch

2 grams of essence or vanilla

The technology

Mix the eggs with the sugar and place in a water bath. The water temperature should be around 55 degrees. If using a mixer, preheat the mixture to 45 degrees, then beat at low speed for 5 - 8 minutes until the bubbles at the top are reduced. Continue beating for another 15 - 25 minutes at maximum speed. The mixture should be increased 3-4 times. Without interrupting the process, add the selected aromatic essence and finally the flour.

When baking, the dish must be lined with greaseproof paper, no more than 2/3 of the form to fill with the dough. The sponge cake is baked immediately after preparing the mixture at a temperature of 200 degrees for 40 - 60 minutes. The finished loaf is removed from the dish and left to stand for 8-10 hours.

If you intend to make a cake, let the sponge cake stand for 12 hours, while the greased paper is not removed so that the product does not dry out. When it is removed, the marsh is cut horizontally into two parts.

Sponge cake for rolls and cupcakes - recipe for 500 grams of finished product :

175 grams of granulated sugar

175 grams of egg yolks

260 grams of protein

195 grams of flour

2 grams of essence or vanilla

1 gram of lemon juice

The preparation :

Beat the yolks together with the sugar for 10 - 15 minutes, until the volume increases 2 - 4 times. The cooled proteins are broken down separately, their volume increases 5-6 times. The first 2-3 minutes to break at a slow speed, then go to maximum speed.

To the beaten yolks add 1/4 of the egg whites, essence, flour and mix everything for about 5 seconds. Then add the remaining proteins and mix until the mixture is homogeneous.

If the egg whites do not break down well, add lemon juice.

Baking marshmallows is similar to cake sponge cake. If a roll is to be prepared, the layer of dough should not be thicker than 1 cm and the dish should be lined with paper. Bake for 10-15 minutes.

In case you have decided to make a dessert "Boucher", you will need a pastry syringe or with the help of a spoon distribute the dough in a suitable tray, forming circles. Bake for 10-15 minutes. After removing the finished dessert from the oven, let it stand for at least 4 hours.

Expect the second part, in which we will reveal some subtleties regarding the preparation and products for sponge cake.