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Never Fail Sponge Cake
Never Fail Sponge Cake
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Never Fail Sponge Cake

4.1
15 mins
20 mins
Easy
12

Just like the name states - never fail sponge cake. Too easy!

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  • Ingredients
  • Method

Ingredients

  • 4 eggs
  • 1 Tbsp boiling water
  • ¾ cup Chelsea White Sugar (170g)
  • 1 Tbsp Edmonds Standard Grade Flour in a 250ml cup; fill up rest of cup with Edmonds Cornflour
  • 2 tsp Edmonds Baking Powder
  • Whipped cream and jam or lemon curd, to sandwich cakes together
  • Strawberries, to decorate (optional)
  • Chelsea Icing Sugar, to dust

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Does this work without baking it in two separate tins? Because I do not want the jam/whipped cream in the middle, please get back to me soon as I want to make this soon, Thx ^^

CHELSEA SUGAR: Hi there, we think this should work ok. You will need to increase the cooking time and either use a bigger tin or high sided tin.

, approved=true, user_name=Jorjia, hs_createdate=1702249859384, rating_new__1_5_=4, id=11175419941}, {comment_text=Just made this cake was flat and tasted bitter had to throw out for the birds, even they are flying over it!!!, approved=true, user_name=Jane, hs_createdate=1702249859367, rating_new__1_5_=1, id=11175501406}, {comment_text=So light and fluffy. Delicious and easy!, approved=true, user_name=Tara, hs_createdate=1702249859282, rating_new__1_5_=5, id=11175436063}, {comment_text=Very good. Included tsp vanilla essence in the tbsp boiling water. Looked good and tasted great., approved=true, user_name=Sue, hs_createdate=1702249859280, rating_new__1_5_=5, id=11175567254}, {comment_text=A disaster - I even did exactly the recipe for once and one side collapsed completely and the other almost edible. They overflowed the paper I had lined the tin with, then shrank to nothing at the end. Trying again with a different recipe., approved=true, user_name=Margaret, hs_createdate=1702249858884, rating_new__1_5_=1, id=11175383330}]}
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Method

Preheat oven to 180°C bake. Grease 2 x 20cm round sponge tins and line with baking paper.
Beat 4 egg whites with the boiling water until stiff. Add Chelsea White Sugar slowly. Beat until dissolved. Mix in yolks one at a time.
Place Edmonds Standard Grade Flour in a 250ml cup, then fill the rest of the cup with Edmonds Cornflour. Sift into the sugar and egg mixture with Edmonds Baking Powder. Fold in.
Divide mixture between the two sponge tins and bake for 20-25 minutes, until pale golden and cooked through.
Once cooked, and while still in the tin, drop sponges from a height of 30cm onto the bench.  The sponges should then hold their height, and not go flat once cool.
When cool sandwich together with cream and jam or lemon curd. Decorate with strawberries, if desired, then dust with Chelsea Icing Sugar.
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