Chinese sponge cake
Description
This recipe won't take much time. Making Chinese sponge cake is not difficult at all, and you only need the simplest ingredients that you'll find in any home. Follow the step-by-step recipe and everything will turn out well. Serve warm or chilled. Perfect with tea.
Instructions
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Step 1
Prepare the ingredients according to the recipe list.
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Step 2
First, prepare a metal baking pan and line it with parchment paper. To help the paper stick to the sides of the pan, brush them with butter. Preheat the oven to top and bottom heat at 150°C.
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Step 3
In a bowl for kneading the dough, sift the flour, add salt and vanilla sugar, and mix.
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Step 4
Separate the whites and yolks of four eggs. Pour the whites immediately into a mixing bowl. Mix the yolks with a fork or whisk until smooth.
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Step 5
Pour the milk into a saucepan, add the butter cut into pieces, and heat over medium heat until the butter melts; do not let it boil.
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Step 6
Remove the milk from the heat.
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Step 7
Slowly pour the hot milk with butter into the flour mixture and mix until smooth. Then add the egg yolks in portions, pouring and stirring them into this mixture.
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Step 8
Thoroughly mix the mixture until smooth and uniform.
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Step 9
Beat the egg whites first until lightly foamy.
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Step 10
Continuing to beat, gradually add the caster sugar. Beat for 3–4 minutes until you have a stiff, glossy meringue.
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Step 11
In several additions, add the egg white mixture to the flour mixture, folding with a silicone spatula in an upward motion, trying to preserve the airy texture.
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Step 12
The mixture should be homogeneous.
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Step 13
Place the dough in the prepared baking tin and smooth the surface.
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Step 14
Place the mold in a container, for example a deeper baking sheet. Pour in hot water at 80 degrees, and place in the oven to bake.
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Step 15
Bake the Chinese sponge cake at 150°C for 60 minutes.
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Step 16
Remove the sponge cake from the baking pan by pulling on the paper. With this preparation, the sponge cake comes out of the pan very easily. After you take it out of the oven, the sponge cake will sink a little, but that is not a problem.
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Step 17
Chinese sponge cake hardly needs decoration or cream, because it is “softer than soft” on its own. Be sure to try making it!