DIY organic vanilla sponge cake or muffin

I have experimented with many sponge cake recipes and this has been the best of all… If you never had luck with baking a cake, look no further than this recipe! I use this as my base recipe and prepared endless variations by preparing different shapes (cakes / muffins / cupcakes), adding different flavours (vanilla pod / grated lemon 🍋 zest / orange 🍊 zest), adding different nuts (almonds/ walnuts / pecan nuts / hazel nuts) and dry fruits (blueberries/ raisins / dates / figs / cherries 🍒)…

Ingredients:

• 225gms organic wheat maida / all-purpose flour
• 225gms unsalted butter (I use homemade)
• 225gms organic sugar (If you have a sweet tooth make it 300gms)
• 4 eggs (I use farm fresh eggs)
• 1/2 tbsp baking powder
• 1/2 vanilla pod (for flavour)
• Chopped nuts / dry fruits / cacao nibs to garnish (optional) ( I get all the fresh nuts n dry fruits from Ajfan Dates n Nuts in my locality.)

Most of the ingredients are available on amazon or check your local organic store.

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 180C
• In sauce pan melt the butter.
• Put the butter, powdered sugar and vanilla pod in a large bowl and whip until light and fluffy.
• Beat in the eggs one at a time and whip.
• Sieve the flour and baking powder.
• Gently add the flour into the prepared whipped purée and mix it with a spoon gently folding in one direction.
• Pour the batter into greased cake pan of desired shape / muffin / cupcake moulds.
• Sprinkle few chopped nuts or cacao nibs on it or leave it as is.
• Bake it at 180C for 40mins or until the toothpick comes out clean.
• Leave to cool n then slice 🍰 before serving…

Plain vanilla sponge cake –

Vanilla muffins with chopped nuts & cacao nibs –

Vanilla sponge cake with cacao nibs

Stored in a airtight glass mason jar –

Do try it out and let me know how it turned out in the comments below!

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