Apricot Sponge

This light, molded dessert sings with clear fruit flavor; it’s refreshing and low in fat. Fruit “sponges,” “fluffs,” “flips” and “whips” are all genteel niceties that we’ve pretty much lost. A sponge is a molded dessert lightened with beaten egg whites. These and other molded desserts were sometimes called “shapes.” You can unmold this, but I like it better served in parfait glasses.