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Light-As-Air Sponge

A delightfully light sponge which lives up to its name.

40 mins
Prep Time
(5)
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Light-As-Air Sponge

Ingredients

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 190ºC. Lightly butter two 20cm sandwich tins and line the bases with baking paper.
  2. Beat egg whites until stiff. Beat in sugar then yolks.
  3. Sift cornflour, flour and baking powder into egg mixture.
  4. Dissolve golden syrup in boiling water. Add to egg mixture, stirring in gently with a metal spoon.
  5. Pour mixture evenly into the sandwich tins.
  6. Bake for 20 minutes or until cake springs back when lightly touched. Leave in tins for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool.

Products used in this recipe

Edmonds Baking Powder NZ Edmonds Cooking

Baking Powder
Edmonds Standard Flour 1.5kg FOP

Standard Grade Flour
New Edmonds Fielders Cornflour 300g

Fielder's Cornflour

Add your review

koru

PERFECT, love the consistency. We didn't have cornflour so we used potato flour (yes i know you aren't supposed to) and it came out perfect. Just watch out if you have a cat like us who ate the whole top

Rica

Just how my grandmother used to make it beautiful sponge so easy.
Thankyou Edmonds

Jenny Williams

Can you make this gluten free.

EDMONDS: Instead of editing this recipe to be Gluten free, we would recommend that you choose from our specifically created and baker tested Gluten Free recipes: https://edmondscooking.co.nz/recipes/gluten-free/

Lynda S

THE BEST SPONGE EVER, BUT ONLY WITH APRICOT JAM AND WHIPPED CREAM
SORRY BUT OTHER FRUIT JAMS OVER POWER THE SPONGE FLAVOURS