Name: Vanilla Sponge
Yield: Makes 1× 20 cm (8 in) sponge
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 6 eggs; 50 g (2 oz) unsalted butter, melted; 175 g (6 oz) plain flour; 175 g (6 oz) caster sugar flavoured with a vanilla pod

Preparation info

Makes
1× 20 cm

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Open Rhodes Around Britain

By Gary Rhodes

Published 1996

About

This sponge can be used for many things: cakes, gâteaux, trifles or puddings. If you keep a couple of vanilla pods in an airtight jar with your caster sugar, you will have vanilla sugar ready whenever you need it.

Ingredients

6 eggs
175 g (6 oz) caster sugar flavoured with a vanilla pod

Method

Pre-heat the oven to 200°C/400°F/gas 6. Grease a 20 cm (8 in) round cake tin and dust with flour.

Whisk the eggs and sugar together in a bowl over a pan of hot water. Continue to whisk until the mixture has doubled in volume and is light and creamy. Remove from the heat and con