Name: Chocolate or Vanilla Sponge
Yield: Makes 2 x 25 cm sponges
Ingredients: 150 g caster sugar; 3 medium eggs; 150 g plain flour, sieved; a few drops vanilla essence (vanilla sponge only)

Preparation info

Makes
2 x 25 cm
sponges

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Ivy

By AA Gill and Mark Hix

Published 1997

About

You can use the same recipe for both the chocolate and vanilla sponges: replace 30 g of the flour with 30 g of cocoa powder for the chocolate cake.

Ingredients

3 medium eggs
150 g caster sugar
a few drops

Dessert
Vegetarian

Method

Pre-heat the oven to 220°C/gas mark 7. Lightly butter and dust with flour the insides of two 25-cm sandwich tins or one deep tray. In a clean mixing bowl, using an electric whisk, or in a food processor or mixer at a high speed, whisk together the eggs and sugar until they are the cons

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