Eggless sponge cake recipe: this is an easy and foolproofย recipe for an eggless sponge vanilla cake that can form a base to pretty much any party cake or birthday cake you want to put together. My cake recipes usually don’t have a story attached to them. Wait, that’s not true. There is sometimes a story but it’s usually just one line – “I felt like eating cake so I baked one and ate it all”.ย However, this eggless sponge cake recipe has a slightly longer story behind it.
I have the habit of taking pictures of recipes from cook books to try later. Mostly, these pictures just stay in my phone album, forgotten and hardly ever looked at again but this cake recipe came out of that dungeon one day.
Flashback: I was in Gurgaon some time last year and walked into some random book store that had every single Nita Mehta book every printed. When I first saw it, I thought I would buy half of them and come back but I got so overwhelmed that all I did was browse through half a dozen of them, click a picture of one recipe, and leave without buying any.
Over a year later, this cake happened because I was trying to sort through my phone pics and free up some space on the memory card and I chanced upon this recipe I had taken a picture of ages ago.
Before I getย to the recipe, one more thing. I am not a fan of cake recipes with oil instead of butter. I am wary of them, and often insist in my head that I can taste the oil and it’s not good and butter is the food of the Gods and that’s what we shouldย always bake with.
This cake is an exception though. You really can’t taste the oil, even if you are paranoid and dramatic like me.
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Eggless Sponge Cake Recipe
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups of all-purpose flour / maida
- 1 cup of plain thick curds / yogurt not sour, at room temperature
- 3/4 cup of sugar
- 1/2 tsp of baking soda
- 1 and 1/4 tsp of baking powder
- 1/2 cup of any neutral oil I used vegetable oil
- 1 tsp of vanilla extract / essence
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350F / 180C. Grease an 8" cake pan (or loaf pan) with some butter or oil and set aside.
- Beat the yogurt well removing any lumps and add the sugar to it.
- Beat well and add the baking powder and baking soda to it.
- Beat again and set aside for 5 mins until you see small bubbles on the surface of the mixture.
- To this, add the vanilla extract and oil. Mix well until the ingredients are combined.
- Sift in the flour in three batches into this mixture.
- Gently fold the mixture using a whisk or rubber spatula (or even a wooden spoon) until you see no more streaks of flour.
- Pour into the prepared pan and tap it firmly on the counter top a couple times to get rid of the air bubbles.
- Bake in the pre-heated oven at 350F / 180C for 30-35 mins or until the top turns a golden brown and a tooth pick inserted into the centre of the cake comes out with dry crumbs.
- Cool completely before cutting and serving the eggless sponge cake
Step by Step Eggless Sponge Cake Recipe
1. Preheat oven to 350F / 180C. Grease an 8″ cake pan (or loaf pan) with some butter or oil and set aside.
2. Beat the yogurt well removing any lumps and add the sugar to it.
3. Beat well and add the baking powder and baking soda to it.
Beat again and set aside for 5 mins until you see small bubbles on the surface of the mixture.
4. To this, add the vanilla extract and oil. Mix well until the ingredients are combined.
5. Sift in the flour in three batches into this mixture.
6. Gently fold the mixture using a whisk or rubber spatula (or even a wooden spoon) until you see no more streaks of flour.
7. Pour into the prepared pan…
… and tap it firmly on the counter top a couple times to get rid of the air bubbles.
8. Bake in the pre-heated oven for 30-35 mins until the top turns a golden brown and a tooth pick inserted into the centre of the cake comes out with dry crumbs.
Cool completely before cutting and serving the eggless sponge cake recipe.
Notes:
– To make a vegan egglessย sponge cake recipe, replace the yogurt with applesauce. A reader tried this and got great results!
– This recipe can be used to bake basic sponge cakes that can be layered and frosted. You can also bake them into loaves or cupcakes
– If you find that your cake is browning too much on top and not cooked inside, cover the cake pan with aluminium foil and slit it on top a bit to let the heat out
– To make this an eggless chocolate sponge cake, replace 1/3 cup of the flour with cocoa powder and sift them together before adding to the wet mixture
– The cake stores well outside for up to two days and in the refrigerator for up to 5 days
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Like the look of that cake…glad I found an eggless sponge recipe…most of my friends here don't eat egg, so I'm always on the lookout of such recipes to make and share with friends !
This is a must try recipe!!
This is a must try recipe!!
This is my go-to eggless cake.Though I am a die-hard chocoholic,sometimes I do crave for bakery-like sponge cakes and this one is the answer.No waiting for butter and eggs to come to room temperature and no beaters required.Truly a one-bowl fuss free cake!
i have seen your eggless chocolate sponge cake variation of this basic cake. looks delicious!
I have made several variations of this cake and it never fails! Great recipe.
Whee, you echoed my feelings on the oil part. Have baked with oil only twice, and both these times I felt that the oily taste was so dominant . And the funny part is that I do not like butter or ghee in anything else, but cakes have to be made with butter only. Again, when you say neutral oil , which one would you use (among those available in kerala).
And sponge cake is something I ve never got right.
try vegetable oil or maybe sunflower oil? i think amma uses refined oil in cakes on the rare occasions she substitutes butter in cakes.
I love eggless recipes, and I am going to try this soon! Im sure it will taste awesome!
I like the sound of the cake – no butter and no eggs! I do not think I have ever made a cake without butter! Looks moist and divine!
Love the last picture with the cherries. CAke looks moist and fluffy Nags!
looks so moist..beautifully baked..nice recipe..