how do you make a good old fashion sponge cake?

Answer 1

8oz butter (or marg)
8oz caster sugar
8oz plain flour
3 tsp baking powder
4 large eggs

Beat all ingredients together for a couple of minutes. Pour into two bottom lined sandwich tins and bake at Gas mark 4, 180C, 360F, for approx 20-25mins. You can tell its done when it starts to shrink away from the sides of the tin. Do not open the oven until you are fairly sure it is ready. Lift out from tins and place onto wire rack to cool and fill with the filling of your choice. But make it raspberry jam!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 2

Simple Sponge Cake
INGREDIENTS
3 eggs
1/2 cup castor sugar or superfine sugar
2/3 cup self-rising flour
DIRECTIONS
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Grease an 8 or 9 inch round cake pan.
In a medium bowl, whip together the eggs and castor sugar until fluffy. Fold in flour. Pour into the prepared pan.
Bake for 20 minutes in the preheated oven, or until the top of the cake springs back when lightly pressed. Cool in the pan over a wire rack.

Answer 3

This is from Emeril

SPONGE CAKE
from Emeril Live EM1D03



Ingredients needed:

1/2 cup milk
2 teaspoons plus 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
8 large eggs
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. In a small saucepan, warm the milk and 2 teaspoons of the butter together over medium-low heat. With an electric mixer fitted with a wire whip, beat the eggs and 1 cup of the sugar on medium-high speed in a large mixing bowl until the mixture is pale yellow, thick, and tripled in volume, about 8 minutes. With the mixer on low speed, beat in the warm milk mixture. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt into a small mixing bowl. Add half the flour mixture to the egg mixture and blend thoroughly until smooth. Repeat with the other half. Add the vanilla and mix gently. Grease a 17- x 12-inch baking pan or jelly-roll pan with the remaining 2 tablespoons butter. Sprinkle evenly with the remaining 2 tablespoons sugar. Pour the cake batter into the pan, spreading it evenly. Bake until the cake springs back when touched, about 15 minutes. Cool for about 2 minutes, then gently flip it out onto a large sheet of parchment paper. Cool completely.

Yield: 1 sheet cake

Answer 4

The absolute easiest way is as follows:
2 eggs - weigh them while they are still in the shells and weigh out all your other ingredients to the same weight (it is normally aroun 8oz when using standard size eggs)
Self raising flour
Sugar (caster is best but doesn't matter too much)
Butter / marge

Chuck all the ingredients in a bowl and mix. Put the mixture in a greased cake tin and put in the over for about 20 mins on gas mark 5. Check with a knife in the middle to see if cooked. If it comes our clean it is done, if not give it another five minutes and check again etc.

Answer 5

Ingredients (for one cake)

4oz/110g margarine
4oz/110g sugar
2 eggs
4oz/110g self-raising flour
1 tablespoon cocoa powder (optional)
Icing Ingredients

4oz/110g icing sugar
2oz/50g soft butter or margarine
Cocoa powder/food colouring


Equipment
Scales
Mixing bowl
Cake tin
Grease-proof paper for the tin

Recipe
Cream together the margarine and sugar.
Add the eggs, flour and cocoa powder
Pour into tin with grease-proof paper in the bottom
Bake for 25 minutes at 180°C/Gas Mark 4
Leave cake to cool, and then ice.

Answer 6

dig out your granny or mum's cook books, old recipes are always the best!!
my grandma gave me her be-ro flour recipe book...it's my cooking bible!!

Answer 7

buy one its easier mate and its always rightlty cooked.

Answer 8

I already answered this 3-4 days ago............Different questions please.