Sponge cake is a cake based on flour, sugar, and eggs, sometimes leavened with baking powder. Derivatives of the basic sponge cake include the American chiffon cake and the Latin American tres leches cake. (Wikipedia)
This light, airy cake gets its texture from beaten egg whites, which are folded into a fluffy mixture of beaten egg yolks and sugar. They get their leavening power entirely from eggs. Sponge cakes are further characterized by the fact that they do not contain shortening of any kind. The cakes can be variously flavored with anything from lemon zest to ground almonds. (All Receipes)
My daughter and I set off to make a simple sponge cake. Considering that we are amateur in baking, this turned out to be one very good fluffy sponge cake! On her part, my daughter thoroughly enjoyed making the chocolate frosting, chocolate balls and circles and sprinkling chocolate tidbits on top of the cake.
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