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Yeasted Vanilla Sponge Cake

Traditional dish with eggs, vegetable oil, all-purpose flour, sifted.

Yeasted Vanilla Sponge Cake
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Ingredients

  • 5 eggs
  • 90 g vegetable oil
  • 150 g all-purpose flour, sifted
  • 8 g instant yeast
  • to taste hot water

Steps

  1. Crack the eggs into the mixing bowl.
  2. Beat them to homogenize.
  3. Mix in the sugar until well-distributed.
  4. Mix in the oil.
  5. Then mix in the milk.
  6. Sift in the flour.
  7. Mix just until incorporated.
  8. Mix in the yeast powder.
  9. Transfer the batter to a cake pan lined with baking paper.
  10. Place the cake pan into the larger baking tray.
  11. Place them into the oven.
  12. Pour the hot water into the larger baking tray to make a water bath about 1–2 cm deep.
  13. Set the oven to 150°C.
  14. Bake for 65 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out with no batter on it.
  15. Remove the cake pan.
  16. Let it cool.
  17. Unmold the cake.
  18. Cut into squares.

Adapted from “Yeasted Vanilla Sponge Cake”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.

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