Sweet or savory, which one do you prefer? Or do you prefer both? Every now and then (or all the time) 🙂 we like to munch on a sweet or savory snack. When this happens to me I prefer to make my own snack. Yes it takes time to make your own snack but in my opinion the result is much more better and much more yummy.
Whenever I crave for something sweet, I make a simple sponge cake with just four ingredient, eggs, flour, sugar and vanilla extract . Sometimes I add pieces of apple which I lightly coat with some flour before adding it to the batter. Coating the apple with flour prevents that the apple sinks to the bottom.
This is a low fat cake since no fat is added but it does contain sugar. It only takes 5 minutes to make the batter and 30 minutes to bake at 180 degrees. You get the best result if all the ingredients are at room temperature. Easy sponge cake recipe:
- Preheat the oven to 180 C or 350 F
- Line an brownie pan with baking paper
- For an brownie pan you will need 8 medium eggs
- Weigh equal amounts of eggs, flour and sugar, start with weighing the eggs first
- Cream the egg, sugar and 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract for 5 minutes with your hand or stand-alone mixer
- The mixture is done when the mixture changes to light yellow
- Now spoon the flour through the batter but not overbeat. You want to keep the batter light and fluffy.
- Pour the batter into the brownie pan and bake for 30 minutes.
- Since all ovens are different, do keep an eye on the cake
- You can check if the cake is done by inserting an toothpick or fork. If it comes out wet bake it for another 5 minutes
- The cake is done when the toothpick or fork is dry
- Let it cool ad enjoy
When I make this cake I decrease the amount of sugar by 25 to 50 grams. If you want to make an apple cake, add the apples after step 6 to the cake.
This cake is so yummy try it with homemade custard, blueberries, raspberries and whipped cream, see picture above. Yummy yummy, can you feel it into your tummy?
Next week I will post a yummy savory snack.
Happy baking.