Vanilla Sponge Cake or Hot Milk cake is an old-fashioned, traditional cake that has a very homely taste and perfectly goes well with your evening tea or makes a great dessert after dinner, served with whipped cream and strawberries.
This recipe is from a good friend and it came out well, the first time I tried it! The joys of baking a delicious cake are really special and out of the world. I have ever since used this recipe.
Why you will love this Simple Vanilla Sponge Cake?
- This is a great cake if you are new to baking and a perfect one to start with for beginners as it is a no-fail recipe.
- It tastes delicious and is dense, and soft.
- You can have it with tea or coffee for your breakfast.
- This base cake can be used as a celebration cake. Frost it with any kind of frosting like whipped cream, buttercream, or any other.
- This tastes even better as it gets old, all the flavors and exude out.
- The texture of each of the cake slices is very soft. Pair with a scoop of whipped cream, strawberries, or ice cream for a nice dessert.
- Your home will have a great aroma when baking this no-fail recipe cake.
Ingredients for the Simple Vanilla Sponge Cake
- Eggs - Organic and at room temperature.
- Butter - Organic, unsalted, and at room temperature, you can substitute with oil.
- Sugar - Granulated and powdered is best for this recipe.
- Milk - Organic, 2% reduced fat milk.
- Baking powder, salt and Vanilla extract
How to make the Simple Vanilla Sponge Cake?
As with any cake you will need all-purpose flour, butter or oil, sugar, and baking powder. The original recipe requires eggs to be warmed up in a bowl over a boiling pan of water until lightly heated up, taking care not to curdle and this process takes about 5 minutes. I skipped this step, just kept the eggs at room temperature for a while and directly beat them in a bowl using the mixer. I also used granulated sugar which I powdered to make it finer so that it is easier to mix it into the egg.
Simple Vanilla Sponge Cake
Ingredients
- 4 eggs
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 ¼ cup all-purpose flour
- 2 ¼ tsp baking powder
- ¼ tsp salt
- 1 ¼ cups milk whole or 2% fat
- 10 tbsp butter 1 ¼ sticks or ½ cup oil
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350 deg F
- Line and grease two 8 inch round pan with butter and dust with all-purpose flour
- In a bowl combine all-purpose flour, baking powder, and salt and mix it with a whisk and keep aside.
- Powder the granulated sugar and keep it aside.
- Using a hand or electric mixer beat the eggs at high speed till it gets a yellow lemon color and this takes about 5 minutes.
- Next, add the powdered sugar gradually and beat till it is light and fluffy for about 3 to 4 minutes, the volume of the mixture should double up.
- On lifting and pouring from the whisk the batter should fall in a ribbon shape.
- Beat in Vanilla to the batter.
- Next add the flour gradually or in 3 additions, beating at low speed just until it is smooth.
- In a saucepan, heat milk and add butter just until the butter melts.
- Add the milk into the batter gradually just until combined, take care not to overbeat
- Pour the batter into both the pans, dividing it equally.
- Bake for about 30 to 35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
- Cool in the pan for 10 minutes and later on a cooling rack until cooled.
- Slice it up and serve topped with whipped cream and sliced strawberries. It tastes out of the world! Enjoy
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Super soft & spongy cake, I just love it!
Thanks much Megala!
Simple & perfect 😀
Thank you Lavs! yes it’s very simple indeed and turned out perfect:)
Cake looks awesome..so spongy
Thank you so much Lathiya!
Awesome recipe and fabulous pictures...Liked it a lot !!
Thank you so much Anshu!
spongy cake. yummy
Thank you Deepa!
Yummyyyy 😋. I love sponge cakes. This looks great 👍☺️
Thank you Priya!
I love recipes like this one because you can use it for so much. A good foundation is worth a heck of a lot when it comes to making a delicious cake. Loving the simplicity of this recipe, less is definitely more in most cases. Go sponge cakes!
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Thank you so much , appreciate it !! I agree a good foundation is indeed very important and the various delicacies and possibilities from one are many. Sure I would love to share recipes to the group and will definitely check it out. Thank again for stopping by !
My pleasure! Exactly, I mean a cake can look fantastic but if the sponge is so-so it would be such a shame. Fantastic, hope to see you there soon!
I did post this on FB page of goodeats as well. Thanks again!
Simple, light and tasty! 🙂
Thank you so much chefkreso!
Lovely and so spongy 😊
Thank you so much Sangita!
Perfect 🙂
Thank you so much Deepa!
Tried this absolutely delicious cake and loved it so much. Simple, non-intimidating easy to follow recipe.. <3
LOL non-intimidating indeed and me too love it for its awesome taste 🙂 Thanks Deepa!
I have been looking for recipe for this cake! I used to have it as a little girl. Thank you!
Aww so nice to hear that . Thank you so much , it is definitely very spongy and has that awesome traditional taste and is my favorite ☺️
Nice one! I have never made a sponge cake. Thanks!