Welcome to the 2nd day of Baking Mania.
You can involve kids in kitchen for the prep work before baking. Its fun to work with them and it a great activity time too. It gives them the chance to understand what we do and to appreciate food. When they help to prepare food feeding the same becomes comparatively easy. Vaandu loves to help in kitchen. At times its so overwhelming and his help will cause me double the amount of clean up work. But I need to agree its a total fun. Mostly for all the cake and cookies he will be my sous chef. Here is a simple cake recipe from both of us :-)
For second day, I thought of posting basic sponge cake which forms the base for zillion other cake recipes like mango layered cake, Tres lesche etc. I learnt this recipe from Kamalika, one of the blogger from BM group. It’s a simple eggless sponge cake. I did make couple of variations. Instead of using plain yogurt, I used vanilla flavored yogurt and skipped using milk for brushing. This cake can be whipped up easily and its one of vaandu’s favorite. He can have this cake with whipping cream and fruits.
Eggless Vanilla Sponge Cake
Ingredients:
- Maida/All purpose flour – 1 .5 cups
- Vanilla flavored yogurt(Curd) – 1 cup (250 ml) (I used greek yogurt)
- Granulated Sugar – 3/4 cup
- Baking soda – 1/2 tsp
- Baking powder – 1 and 1/4 tsp
- Cooking oil – 1/2 cup (125 ml)Vanilla essence – 1 and 1/2 tsp
Steps:
- Preheat oven to 375 degree F.
- Sieve maida twice and keep aside.
- Add the sugar and curd to the maida and mix them well.
- Add baking powder, baking soda to the creamed mixture and mix well. Set them aside for 5 minutes.
- Now add vanilla essence,cooking oil and mix well.
- Grease the cake pan and pour the mixture into it.
- Bake in preheated oven at 375 degree F for 10 mins, then reduce temperature to 350 deg F and bake it for 30-35 mins or till a fork inserted into the center of the cake comes out clean.
- Allow the cake to cool down for 10 mins, then invert
- That’s it. Yummy sponge cake is ready.
Beautiful and perfectly baked cake!! Looks awesome..
Moist & delicious looking vanilla cake.
:-) :-)
Beautifully done cake.
Thanks
This is a perfect tea time cake.
Yeah. :-)
The sponge looks soft and I like the click with strawberry.
:-) Thanks
Lovely sponge cake and I like the idea of adding vanilla yogurt to enhance the flavor of the cake.
Thanks Sandhya
Aaaaaaaaaah :)
:-) :-)
Looks very nice and moist
Thanks veena
My nephew has an egg allergy, so I am always on the lookout for great egg free recipes.
Glad I m able to provide some egg less recipes. There are couple more too please check it out. Thanks
Nice cake Vidhya.And yes, one perfect base cake recipe helps us create so many versions and variations!!!
Totally agree
Sponge cake is always a welcome..good one..
Thanks a lot Valli
Perfect looking sponge cake Vidya. I love that colour. Looks superb..
Thanks Gayathri
Hii… The cake looks lovely… Can u please tell me the difference between adding baking soda and baking powder while baking…. Online answers are too confusing…. Thanks
Hi Gayathri, Welcome here. Thanks and here is my understanding regarding those two. Hope it helps. Baking soda is basically alkaline and when it is mixed with any acidic solution it creates the bubbles and act as raising agent. In this recipe there are no eggs so I need a binding + raising agent. Yogurt when mixed with baking soda acts as raising or leavening agent. If you notice most cake recipes calls for baking soda along with lemon juice or buttermilk basically acidic solutions. Baking powder is combination of baking soda + starch/flour + acid. It acts as both binding and leavening agent. For cakes I have tried ignoring baking sodas. But for poori and bhajji i do add a pinch of baking soda because it helps to puff up the pooris and bhajjis. But you need use luke warm water when using baking soda. For cakes when you are not using eggs, you need the binding agent that helps to raise and give you the moisture texture. So along with baking powder u add little extra soda for that purpose.
That was very helpful srividhya… Thank u so much….
good one vidhya, sponge cake is indeed a classic cake for most of us in India
Thanks Pradnya
Yummy. This yogurt based vanilla sponge cake is one foolproof recipe. Always turns perfect.
I know.. Comes out really good.
Basic sponge is such a versatile cake and you have done a fabulous job. It is so much fun when the little ones help.
Thanks a lot Varada.
Grt clicks Sri, cake looks moist and I am sure little baker would have enjoyed it.
Thanks vidya. Oh yeah its his favorite cake. :-)
I feel like I should have some cake now :)
I will send some for sure :-) Wish you could be here close by
This Nita mehta recipe is such a foolproof one. It never fails. I love it. And yours has turned out perfectly without any dome too!
oh yeah.. This cake is my life saver. I use this a base for all other cakes
Prefect texture and this eggless vanilla sponge cake rocks..
Thanks Priya
I have not tried yogurt as a substitute for eggs. Vanilla yogurt must have given additional flavor to the cake.
yeah it came out really well. As it was vanilla flavored cake went with that.
Looks so yummy …
Thanks ka :-)