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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If you loved this Simple vanilla sponge cake you may also love these cakes Citrus Olive Oil Cake, TresLeches Cake, Strawberry Shortcake with whipped cream frosting, and White Layered Cake with Whipped cream frosting do check them out!
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I tried this recipe, and the simple vanilla sponge cake turned out perfect! It’s light, fluffy, and so easy to make. Definitely a go-to recipe for any occasion!
The recipe was so easy and turned out exactly how it was written! So delicious
My family loved this! Such a fluffy cake! Yum!