Yeasted Vanilla Sponge Cake
Traditional dish with eggs, vegetable oil, all-purpose flour, sifted.

- prep 9 min
- cook 21 min
- total 30 min
- serves 4
- advanced
Ingredients
- 5 eggs
- 90 g vegetable oil
- 150 g all-purpose flour, sifted
- 8 g instant yeast
- to taste hot water
Steps
- Crack the eggs into the mixing bowl.
- Beat them to homogenize.
- Mix in the sugar until well-distributed.
- Mix in the oil.
- Then mix in the milk.
- Sift in the flour.
- Mix just until incorporated.
- Mix in the yeast powder.
- Transfer the batter to a cake pan lined with baking paper.
- Place the cake pan into the larger baking tray.
- Place them into the oven.
- Pour the hot water into the larger baking tray to make a water bath about 1–2 cm deep.
- Set the oven to 150°C.
- Bake for 65 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the center comes out with no batter on it.
- Remove the cake pan.
- Let it cool.
- Unmold the cake.
- Cut into squares.
Adapted from “Yeasted Vanilla Sponge Cake”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.