- TM 31
Ingredients
Trixie's 'Light as Air' Sponge Cake
- 1/2 tsp bicarb soda
- 1 tsp cream of tartar
- 90 g cornflour (see Tips)
- 150 g raw sugar
- 4 eggs, at room temperature, separated
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp hot water
Accessories you need
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Butterfly -
Spatula TM5/TM6
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Pre-heat oven to 180C. Grease 2 x 15cm cake tins and set aside.
Place bicarb, cream of tartar and cornflour into mixing bow and mix 10 sec/speed 5. Set aside. Clean and dry mixing bowl.
Place sugar into mixing bowl and mill 10 sec/speed 9. Set aside. Clean and dry mixing bowl.
Insert butterfly. Place egg whites into mixing bowl and beat with MC off 2-4 min/speed 3 or until stiff.
With Butterfly rotating on speed 3, add milled sugar one teaspoon at a time until incorporated. (Don't rush this process; it will take appox. 4-5 minutes.)
With Butterfuly rotating on
"Gentle stir setting" , add yolks one at a time.Add vanilla, water and cornflour mixture and mix 5 sec/speed 1. Scrape down sides of mixing bowl with spatula and mix 2-3 sec/speed 1 or until fully combined.
Divide mixture between two tins. Bake for 35-40 min until a skewer comes out clean.
Tip
If gluten free is not a problem, the cornflour can be substituted with plain flour.
To serve, leave the sponges to cook, then sandwich them with whipped cream and decorate the top with fresh fruit.
This recipe is contributed by Maree Johnstone, customer TAS and is featured in Devil of a Cookbook.
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KrinandThemoAlice: 180 degrees fan forced is equivalent to 200 degrees non fan forced so you need to cook the sponge at either 160 fan forced or 180 degrees non fan forced.
Not quite a pancake, but not a sponge either. I used a 22 cm tin, so that may have been the problem. Or part of it. The egg whites/sugar mixture at the end of step was so stiff and merainge-like it was quite impossible to do minimal mixing, and "folding" in the flour was out of the question.
Great sponge and I'm no skilled cake maker! I mistakenly had my ther mie on 60 deg when whipping the whites ut it turned out great. The only thing was I didn't have two tins so cooked in one and this cake is so feathery light it was very hard to cut into two layers. Will have to buy a second tin for next time.
I followed instructions exactly except I also used 20" tins as that's all I had and they are perfect. It was my first ever attempt to cook a sponge so thank you very much .
What is the recommended cake tin size?
Complete fail, 2 pancake looking things. Off to buy a cake
I made this today and the first cake was a complete fail. Not to be deterred I tried again. Off the blog version which says to remove the butterfly before adding the flour etc. worked like a charm. The second time I also made it out of cornflour instead of plain flour, not sure if that also made a difference but I'm glad I tried a second time. Thank you for the recipe.
oh wow. decided to use this for the cake component of apple tea cake. i peeled, chopped and coated 2 1/2 (on the way out) apples with cinnamon and sugar. thermied up this cake mix. split between 2 greased pie dishes. dropped the apple slices evenly between the cakes. baked as directed. it is hard to describe how awesome this is, because i'm aussie and we have to swear when something is so bloody amazing.
i made this last night. The sponge turned out OK, BUT it looked as though it was going to be brilliant, rose up then sort of deflated after 8-9 minutes. Outside became too brown imo so reckon Fan 180 is slightly too hot.
I also had trouble getting the cornflour to mix in and THEN couldn't get the yolks to mix So had to keep adding time to mixing.
I thimk it is the only thing I have made in my TM that was easier in my mixer. Why didn't stuff mix?
Very disappointed in this recipe - cakes turned out flat as pancakes. Haven't tasted them yet as they were for my husband's birthday tomorrow.
I can safely say that I will be coming home tomorrow and making a new cake as I do not feel even remotely happy about serving this one.
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