basic eggless sponge cake

I celebrated my birthday last week and since then I am baking cakes every otherday. Well i am really happy about it. On Satureday I was invited for an Einschulung party. It is a complex word but it has a very simple meaning according to German tradition when children start their schooling, the parents and teacher greet them with gifts and chocolate. It’s a very lively celebration with musical performances and gifts. What could be better as a gift then beautiful cake? So I baked it for the little angel.

Ingredients

Basic cake:

Maida/Flour/Weizenmehl 140 g

Condensed milk 1 cup

Sugar 75 g

Milk 80g

Baking powder ½ tsp

Baking soda ½ tsp

Butter 50g

Vanillin powder / vanilla essence ½ tsp

Icing/ Garnishing

Sugar decorations/Zucker décor

Cooking chocolate/Kuchen glasur

Additionally silicon or normal baking moulds

First of all take flour baking powder and baking soda together and Sieve it.

Its really important because it will make the cake fluffy. Then beat condensed milk, and butter together and add sugar and vanilla essence to it. If you are using sweetened condensed milk e.g.Milkmaid then do not add sugar because then it will be very very sweet.  Now mix flour mixture with this liquid part and beat nicely be careful that there should be no lumps in the mixture. Preheat oven at 180 degree.

Then its time to grease baking mould, apply a uniform layer of oil/butter to the mould and dust some Flour to it. Since I used silicon moulds I did not grease it. Now add cake batter to moulds. And bake it for 25 min. to check whether cake is baked prick it with a thick needle if it come out clean that means cake is cooked if not bake it a bit more.

There is another tip, “always demould your cake when it is properly cooled” so waist for at least 2 hours before taking the mould out. So that it will not break during demoulding process.

Now we will decorate our master piece. Take content of the kuchen glasur in a porcelain bowl. Or if you did not buy that then put cooking chocolate to a bowl and add approximately me quantity of butter/Vegetable fat/ vanaspati ghee. Now take a pan and add some water to the pan let it boil and then place your bowl to it. Mix occasionally and let it melt. Now pour it over cake and cover the cake with the help of brush. Now add sugar decorations as per your choice and ENJOY.

Well! You can use same batter to make muffins too.