Hey everyone and welcome back to my channel Cakes by MK. In today's video i'm going to be
showing you guys how to make the most delicious sponge cake. What I absolutely love about this
sponge cake is one it doesn't have an eggy taste to it which you know can often happen when you're
making a sponge cake, two is that it's nice and soft and three is that it stays moist for you
know days and days and doesn't dry out. If you're new to my channel welcome and if you enjoy this
video please give it a thumbs up below. Apart from that let's get right into this video
so first up we're going to prepare our cake tin. So i've got an 8 inch cake tin here which
i'm going to line with some baking paper. So what i'm doing first is drawing an outline
of the bottom of my tin with a pencil and then cutting that out. Don't worry about the lead from
the pencil getting into your cake because we're going to cut the circle slightly smaller than
the outline we make. Now next i'm just using a pastry brush to coat my cake tin with a thin
layer of softened butter and this is going to help our baking paper stick to our cake tin
now i need to cover the sides of my cake tin and to do that i'm just cutting out some long lines of
baking paper and securing those to the sides of my cake tin. I don't know why i decided to leave
so much overhang on the top of my cake tin, you really don't need that much unless you're making
your cake in a smaller cake tin in which case the overhang will prevent your cake from overflowing
now once that's done we're ready to make our cake batter. So for the ingredients you'll need some
unflavored vegetable oil, sugar, melted butter, milk, vanilla, all-purpose flour, cornstarch and some eggs
now the first thing you need to do is separate your egg whites from your egg yolks
so i find that using your hands are just the easiest way to do this so just make
sure they're nice and clean and then use them to separate your egg yolk from your egg white
it's also best to separate one egg at a time as this will ensure that you don't accidentally crack
a yolk into your egg whites otherwise you'll have to start the whole process again because egg yolks
prevent your egg whites from whipping up properly which is what we need to do in the next step
now once that's all done we're ready to start whipping up our egg whites
so for your egg white mixture you're going to need your egg whites of course and then your
sugar. Now the first thing i'm going to do is whip up my egg whites on a medium speed for about 30
seconds until it becomes light and frothy and then i'm going to start gradually adding in my sugar
if you have a stand mixer i would recommend using that because your arm can get a little sore
but for the purposes of this video i'm using my hand mixer and if that's all you've got at
home then that's fine too it's just a little bit more of a workout. Now once all your sugar
is added to your egg whites you just want to keep whipping until you reach a stiff peak
and this can take anywhere between 5 to 10 minutes depending on the strength of your mixer
now you'll know you're at the stiff peak stage when you lift up your mixture and the peaks stay
upright so if you see here on the tip of my hand mixer the peaks are staying straight and not
wilting over on the edges. So once the egg whites are done just pop them aside while you combine the
rest of your ingredients together in a separate bowl, so start off by adding 4 egg yolks to your
bowl followed by the milk, oil, vanilla, melted butter and your sifted flour and cornstarch
and then just use a whisk to combine that all together until you reach a cake batter like
consistency. Remember not to over mix it so you just want to mix it until it's just combined
now next you want to add a third of your egg white mixture to your batter
and gently fold that through
it helps to cut through the batter like i am here
and then once that's mostly mixed through you want to add
that batter now into the remaining egg whites and fold that through
doing it this way just helps to retain as much air in our batter as possible
now once your mixture is nice and smooth a few little lumps are okay
you want to transfer the batter into our prepared cake tin
give the cake tin a little shake to even out the batter and a few bangs too to get
rid of any large air bubbles and then our cake is ready to go into the oven
now this cake is going to sit in a water bath to prevent the edges from overcooking
so to do that you want to place your cake tin into a baking tray
and then fill it with hot water about halfway up your cake tin
and now that's simply going to go into a preheated oven at 160 degrees celsius for about an hour
Now once your cake is done you want to let it cool in your cake tin for about 15 to 20 minutes and
then turn it out to completely cool. I mean just look at the edges of this cake it looks so so good
it's super soft and moist and just full of flavor you guys are gonna absolutely love this recipe
so that is it guys that is how you make this delicious sponge
cake, i promise you guys you will not be disappointed if you try it out it's one
of my favorite recipes and i'm really excited to share it with you guys so
do let me know in the comment section below if you try it out and what you think but apart from
that thanks so much for watching Cakes by MK and i'll see you guys in the next video