Kyra’s Hot Milk Sponge Cake

Preparation info
  • Makes

    two

    23 cm round layers, each about 3.75cm high
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Bake!: Essential Techniques for Perfect Baking

By Nick Malgieri

Published 2010

  • About

This is the easiest and best-tasting sponge layer you can imagine, and since it’s baked in two tins, you won’t need to slice through it to make a sandwich cake. Thanks to my friend Kyra Effren, one of the world’s great bakers, for sharing this recipe. Kyra often serves this as a tea cake with a thin layer of raspberry jam between the layers and a light dusting of icing sugar on fop; it is elegant simplicity at its best. Though a hot m