Sponge cake is a kind of puffed snack that uses the foaming performance of protein to fill the egg liquid with a large amount of air and bake with flour, because its structure is similar to a porous sponge and is named, which is called foam cake in foreign countries. In China, it is called clear cake, that is, we often eat water cake.
The sponge cake is made with eggs, sugar, flour and a small amount of grease, but you can also choose not to add it. However, fresh eggs are the most important condition for making sponge cakes, because fresh egg colloidal solutions have high consistency and can inject gas to keep the gas stable. In this way, the cake we make will swell up, taste soft, and eggs that are stored for too long should not be used to make cakes. The flour used to make the cake is mostly low gluten flour, its powder should be fine, the gluten should be soft, but there must be enough gluten to bear the expansion force during baking, and the cake can be formed.
Let me introduce the simplest sponge cake making method, without adding a drop of water and oil, the cake is soft and delicious.
1. Prepare five eggs, separated by egg whites and yolks, and put them into different containers. However, be sure to keep the container clean, otherwise it will affect the distribution of our egg whites later. Next, we use an egg beater to beat the egg whites to the shape of a fish eye bubble, and add a spoonful of sugar, about ten grams. Then continue to whip into a creamy shape and then add a spoonful of sugar until it is hard to beat, and it is difficult to catch it with an egg beater, at which point the egg whites are completely whisked.
2. Next, we add a spoonful of sugar to the egg yolk, stir it with chopsticks, then use the whisk to open it slightly, and then sift in the low gluten flour, there is no low gluten flour at home, you can steam the ordinary flour on the pot for about ten minutes and then add it. After the flour is put in, we use chopsticks to draw a Z and stir the flour and egg yolk solution into a particle-free state. Then add the beaten egg whites twice, stir up and down evenly, taking care not to defoam.
3. Spread a layer of oil paper on the cake mold, pour the cake paste into it, then use a small scraper to scrape the surface of the cake paste flat, and then use your hand to support the baking pan and shake it a few times to slightly shake the bubbles. After the oven is preheated for five minutes, set the oven to heat up and down at 180 degrees, bake for about 30 minutes, and set the time according to the temper of your own oven.
4. When the time comes, don't rush to take out the cake, you can take it out in two or three minutes, so that the cake will not shrink or collapse. After the cake is removed and let it cool for a while, we take the cake out with the oil paper, and then cut it into small and evenly even portions with a knife, and then we can eat it.
The cake produced by this method is delicate, fluffy and soft, especially delicious, the sponge cake method is not very simple, making cakes for the family at home, both saving money and health, it is really two birds with one stone!
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