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Never Fail Sponge Cake

Name: Never Fail Sponge Cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: 12
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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Preparation

15 mins

Bake

20 mins

Difficulty

Easy

Servings

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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Reviews

186

What did you think of this recipe?

not going to tell you

smells as good as tastes

Mia

perfect....Ty!Follow the recipe and it's awesome.

Awesome

thomas

amazing

Margaret

It didn't work dropped on bench like written and watched it go flat!!!

Janette

Just made this for the first time ever making a sponge. Really hope it tastes as good as it looks, cos DAMN! It looks amazing! Great height. No shrinkage.

Joanne

My daughter wanted to learn how to make a sponge and chose this recipe. It was perfect!

Heather

Can i make this and add cocoa for chocolate if so how muchCHELSEA: yes, you could make this into a chocolate sponge. Try replacing 1/4 cup of the cornflour with cocoa powder.

Sweaty

not the winning recipe, but still nice/average. A bit to floury for me I'm afraid and way to much cornstarch/cornflour! But tastes good with lemon curd.

Michelle

Beautiful light sponge. Made it several times and is always lovely light and tasty.

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.

Chelsea Products in Recipe

Icing Sugar

Icing sugar can also be...

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White Sugar

The uniform size of the...

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Reviews

186

What did you think of this recipe?

not going to tell you

smells as good as tastes

Mia

perfect....Ty!Follow the recipe and it's awesome.

Awesome

thomas

amazing

Margaret

It didn't work dropped on bench like written and watched it go flat!!!

Janette

Just made this for the first time ever making a sponge. Really hope it tastes as good as it looks, cos DAMN! It looks amazing! Great height. No shrinkage.

Joanne

My daughter wanted to learn how to make a sponge and chose this recipe. It was perfect!

Heather

Can i make this and add cocoa for chocolate if so how muchCHELSEA: yes, you could make this into a chocolate sponge. Try replacing 1/4 cup of the cornflour with cocoa powder.

Sweaty

not the winning recipe, but still nice/average. A bit to floury for me I'm afraid and way to much cornstarch/cornflour! But tastes good with lemon curd.