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Trixie's 'Light as Air' Sponge Cake
- 1/2 tsp bicarb soda
- 1 tsp cream of tartar
- 90 g cornflour (see Tips)
- 150 g raw sugar
- 4 eggs, at room temperature, separated
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp hot water
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Recipe is created for
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Recipe's preparation
Pre-heat oven to 180C. Grease 2 x 15cm cake tins and set aside.
Place bicarb, cream of tartar and cornflour into mixing bow and mix 10 sec/speed 5. Set aside. Clean and dry mixing bowl.
Place sugar into mixing bowl and mill 10 sec/speed 9. Set aside. Clean and dry mixing bowl.
Insert butterfly. Place egg whites into mixing bowl and beat with MC off 2-4 min/speed 3 or until stiff.
With Butterfly rotating on speed 3, add milled sugar one teaspoon at a time until incorporated. (Don't rush this process; it will take appox. 4-5 minutes.)
With Butterfuly rotating on "Gentle stir setting" , add yolks one at a time.
Add vanilla, water and cornflour mixture and mix 5 sec/speed 1. Scrape down sides of mixing bowl with spatula and mix 2-3 sec/speed 1 or until fully combined.
Divide mixture between two tins. Bake for 35-40 min until a skewer comes out clean.
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Tip
If gluten free is not a problem, the cornflour can be substituted with plain flour.
To serve, leave the sponges to cook, then sandwich them with whipped cream and decorate the top with fresh fruit.
This recipe is contributed by Maree Johnstone, customer TAS and is featured in Devil of a Cookbook.
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Comments
Add a commentKrinandThemoAlice: 180 degrees fan forced is...
KrinandThemoAlice: 180 degrees fan forced is equivalent to 200 degrees non fan forced so you need to cook the sponge at either 160 fan forced or 180 degrees non fan forced.
Not quite a pancake, but not
Not quite a pancake, but not a sponge either. I used a 22 cm tin, so that may have been the problem. Or part of it. The egg whites/sugar mixture at the end of step was so stiff and merainge-like it was quite impossible to do minimal mixing, and "folding" in the flour was out of the question.
Great sponge and I'm no
Great sponge and I'm no skilled cake maker! I mistakenly had my ther mie on 60 deg when whipping the whites ut it turned out great. The only thing was I didn't have two tins so cooked in one and this cake is so feathery light it was very hard to cut into two layers. Will have to buy a second tin for next time.
I followed instructions
I followed instructions exactly except I also used 20" tins as that's all I had and they are perfect. It was my first ever attempt to cook a sponge so thank you very much .
What is the recommended cake
What is the recommended cake tin size?
Complete fail, 2 pancake
Complete fail, 2 pancake looking things. Off to buy a cake
I made this today and the
I made this today and the first cake was a complete fail. Not to be deterred I tried again. Off the blog version which says to remove the butterfly before adding the flour etc. worked like a charm. The second time I also made it out of cornflour instead of plain flour, not sure if that also made a difference but I'm glad I tried a second time. Thank you for the recipe.
oh wow. decided to use this
oh wow. decided to use this for the cake component of apple tea cake. i peeled, chopped and coated 2 1/2 (on the way out) apples with cinnamon and sugar. thermied up this cake mix. split between 2 greased pie dishes. dropped the apple slices evenly between the cakes. baked as directed. it is hard to describe how awesome this is, because i'm aussie and we have to swear when something is so bloody amazing.
i made this last night. The
i made this last night. The sponge turned out OK, BUT it looked as though it was going to be brilliant, rose up then sort of deflated after 8-9 minutes. Outside became too brown imo so reckon Fan 180 is slightly too hot.
I also had trouble getting the cornflour to mix in and THEN couldn't get the yolks to mix So had to keep adding time to mixing.
I thimk it is the only thing I have made in my TM that was easier in my mixer. Why didn't stuff mix?
Very disappointed in this
Very disappointed in this recipe - cakes turned out flat as pancakes. Haven't tasted them yet as they were for my husband's birthday tomorrow.
I can safely say that I will be coming home tomorrow and making a new cake as I do not feel even remotely happy about serving this one.
Absolute disaster! It was
Absolute disaster!
It was looking great after 15 mins then went horribly wrong. I needed to rotate shelves because my oven has real hot spots and after I shut the door again they collapsed and looked like pancakes.
I had high hopes because the batter looked perfect and they initially rose perfectly. They looked like they would burn if I left them though.
I'm guessing I ruined them by opening the door?
Fiona Hoskin wrote: Hi there!
Hi Nikki1987,
Sorry to hear about that.
We have some tips from Fiona Hoskin (see quote above). She bakes Trixie's sponge cake at every Devil of a Cookbook cooking class and experiences success each time.
We hope her comments help you experience success the next time you make this recipe.
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Mine was a complete disaster.
Mine was a complete disaster. Cooked in 15 minutes and started to burn. Once I removed it from oven it pulled away from the sides of the tins, shrank and turned to rubber. Straight to the bin.
Made this for the first time
Made this for the first time today. Didn't have 15cm pans so used my 20cm pans and they turned out perfectly.
Even timed my teaspoons of sugar to 1 teaspoon every 12 seconds. Filled the middle with strawberry jam, cream and strawberries. Yum yum, so much easier than trying with my sift 6 times old sponge recipe. Will definitely be making again. Thanks.
Thankyou so much as this cake
Thankyou so much as this cake was my first sponge in the Thermomix and I cooked it in two 20cm round pans....turned out perfect. The only thing I found was that when you put the corn flour in etc...it would not mix properly but like the others here....I just gently folded it in. Also my fan forced oven runs 'hot' a little, so I turned it down to 175 after 5-10 mins when I first put the cake in. The cake was very light and yummy. Will def make this again
Love this recipe I even
Love this recipe I even made a chocolate version by using cocoa powder instead of the cornflour.
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this is an answwr for the
this is an answwr for the person who said her flour didnt mix on - i just used a spoon and gently folded it in - for like a few seconds. turned out fine
Great recipe - turned put
Great recipe - turned put perfect - except that i was trying to make it for a 33cm square. i just used the standard measure and it rose to about 1/2 inch - so next time will make double mixture. Also the oven needs to be less than 180 as mineis a fan firced. The cake was light and fluffy and yummy.
Hi stickersabc, Sorry to
Hi stickersabc,
Sorry to hear that.
We have some tips from Fiona Hoskin, eight comments in under the comments section for this recipe. She bakes Trixie's sponge cake at every Devil of a Cookbook cooking class and experiences success each time.
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I just made this for my
I just made this for my daughters cake smash and it was a total disaster. It was tough on the outside and dense in the middle.
Absolutely perfect. I made it
Absolutely perfect. I made it in a large square tin for a trifle and it turned out just perfect. My oven was 180 fan forced then I turned it down to 170 after 5 min and cooked it for 30 min. Thanks for the recipe.
Hi Curious cooks, ihow long
Hi Curious cooks, ihow long did you mix it for?
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Hello - we had trouble mixing
Hello - we had trouble mixing in the corn flour mixture etc at the end.... It didn't want to mix in....
I have had problems with
I have had problems with sponges in the past if the oven is not great. If your oven is not hot enough to start or is loosing heat it may be the cause.
Hi I made this cake and it
Hi I made this cake and it worked beautifully. Cleaning the TM bowl twice during the recipe is a bit of a bore though. I baked at 180 degrees conventional not fan forced and the timing was bang on.
Hi there! I make this cake at
Hi there! I make this cake at every Devil of a Cooking class and in between as well and find you need to make sure everything is very clean (butterfly, bowl and blade etc) and make sure the egg whites are stiff before you start slowly adding the sugar - takes at least 7 minutes to get it all beaten in spoonful by spoonful. Be very gentle folding the other ingredients in then and sounds like you need to lower your oven temperature. I have lots of friends whose ovens aren't as hot as mine so they need longer at 180 than I do. My oven on 180 is quite ferocious so I lower the temperature a bit after the first 5-10mins. Hope you get a delicious sponge next time round!
The sponge turned out really
The sponge turned out really well. I cooked it in a fan oven at 160 degs and it took 40 mins. I also used icing sugar as we had it in the pantry and sifted it a couple of times in a bowl. Step 2 I also did in a bowl and triple sifted. I'm not sure if that helped, but I ended up with a lovely light sponge. Cooked in 1 20cm pan as we don't have any 15 cm pans, though next time I'll try using 2 20cm pans. Lovely, thank you!
I must be completely
I must be completely spongecake disabled, I've tried to make this cake 5 times in the past week, using this recipe, and then trying other recipes for Thermomix, and have failed spectacularly each time. I have purchased a thermometer for my oven, which read 180 for most of the cooking. I have a fan forced oven and the cake definitely smelled as if it were burning after 20 minutes. It is important for me to make this gluten free, and I do not want to use custard powder. What is the secret to making a spongecake, because I really do not want to have to admit that the Thermomix can't make a spongecake.
This recipe is fantastic but
This recipe is fantastic but is the oven temp fan forced? I cooked it at fan forced 180 and it cooked in about 15-18 minutes. Wonder which is best for the cake?