P has been eating my head to bake him a cake for quite a while and so, I searched the ‘Net for a simple, no-fuss one. And I found one that uses no butter or oil! Wa-hey! It is called Aunt Martha’s Sponge cake and I got the recipe from Cooks.com. It was rather easy to make and uses just about five ingredients. The result was a real yummilicious cake. P was absolutely delighted with it!
If you want to try this at home, you’d need the following ingredients:
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
4 tbsp. warm water
1 cup flour
1 level teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
(yes you read it right, no fat!)
Lightly grease a baking dish. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees celcius, Gas mark 6.
Take the eggs and beat for a minute at low speed. Add a cup of sugar and beat for five more minutes until the mixture becomes thick and takes on a lemon colour.
Next add four tablespoons warm water to the bowl and mix for a minute. Sift together plain flour (maida) and baking powder and fold. Make sure you don’t get overzealous and mix it too much - then you’d end up with a rock-like cake!
Lastly, add the vanilla essence, give it a stir and transfer to a shallow baking dish. Bake at gas mark 6 for five minutes and then at gas mark 5 for 15-20 minutes.
Cool and serve.
P decided to decorate it with ready-made icing and some hundreds & thousands. Sugar overload!
Hey DG,
I really like this simple sponge, great for making black forest too? WIll probably take this for my friend’s little dotty tomorrow
hey nandita,
it was dead simple to make, i tell ya. oooh black forest base eh? I never thought of that!!! pls let me know how your cake turned out.
mmmh! just the thing for my son’s birthday!
i’ve been looking for your email address everywhere… so trying a comment instead: we are organising this year’s menu for hope for the uk - if you’d like to participate, please get in touch and i will send you more information! (alternatively, find more info on my blog!)
it would be great if you could participate!
thanks
johanna