SPONGE CAKE

Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 45 minutes
Serves: 15

Ingredients:

1 cup maida(refined flour)            

4 eggs

1 cup coaster sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
5-7 drops pineapple or vanilla essence
1 cup or 100 gms refined oil
butter paper in the shape of baking tray (optional)


Method:
1.Sieve maida along with baking powder two to three times.
2.Switch on the oven (OTG) for preheating at 200* CG or 400* F.
3.Break the eggs in a bowl and beat them with a blender.
4.Mix oil and sugar and blend it till the sugar desolves completely.
5.Mix beaten eggs mixture with oil sugar mixture.
6.Add one after one spoon of maida mixed with baking powder in the above mixture using cut and fold method with a wooden spoon(do not use blender now) .
7.When the batter is ready add essence and mix with light hand.
8.Grease the baking dish,set the butter paper in it and pour in the cake batter.
9.Bake it for 10 minutes at 180*CG or 350*F and and after that for 25-30 minutes at 150* or 300* F. 10.Check it with knife if it is not baked completely then bake it for 5 more minutes.
11.Let it cool and then bring it out of the container and the cake is ready to be served.