Soft and Fluffy Sponge Cake - flour

Method

• Line the bottom of the mold with parchment paper.
• There's no need to line the sides unless you don't have a cake knife for easy removal.
• Preheat the oven to 180C.
• Combine the butter and milk in a bowl, then place the bowl in hot water (hot water bath).
• Once the butter has melted, leave the mixture in the bowl as is.
• Sift the cake flour and set aside.
• Add the soft light brown sugar to the eggs, and then add to the mix in the hot water bath.
• Whisk until the batter is pale and thick (the photo is still in the progress).
• Remove the mix from the hot water bath halfway through and continue to whip.
• Continue until the batter reaches ribbon stage.
• In the final stage, mix at low speed to allow the batter to form the desired consistency.
• Next add in the vanilla oil, sift in the cake flour once more, and gently mix by scooping the batter up from the bottom and turning over.
• Add two ladles of the batter from Step 5 into the dissolved butter and milk from Step 2, blend together, and mix it back into the Step 5 mixture (this method is foolproof).
• Gently mix, and pour into the mold.
• Rap the pan against your work surface to remove any air bubbles, and lightly mist with water.
• Set the oven to 180C for 25 minutes and bake.
• This is about 8 minutes into the baking.
• This is as much as it will rise up.
• Once it turns golden brown cover with aluminium foil, reduce to 170C, and bake for the remaining 17 minutes.
• It is done once a wooden skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean.
• Drop the cake from small height to prevent shrinking.
• It is ok to remove it from the mold straight away.
• Cover in plastic wrap and let sit for a day to let the flavours meld.
• You can slice it into 3 layers.
• Use 3 eggs, 85 g cake flour, 80 g light brown sugar, 20 g butter, and 30 g milk to make an 18 cm version of this cake.
• This is a decorated version of the cake that I made for my eldest son's 15th birthday Bisque Cake.
• This is the cake I made for my second son's 13th birthday.