Secrets to a Perfect Sponge Cake

Allow at least 30 minutes for the ingredients, such as milk and eggs to come to room temperature before making your cake. This has been observed to make mixing the ingredients much easier.

Baking is not for those who seek instant happiness and results. The food is placed in the oven after carefully following the recipe and combining the ingredients followed by gently folding the flour into the wet ingredients while mixing to ensure that the mixture is as aerated as possible. After which, you wait and enjoy.

Incorporating as much air as possible is the key to creating a light, fluffy sponge with soft crumb. After all, it's trapped air that causes the cake to rise in the oven. So wait, and enjoy the process!e

The best way to get even cakes is to use a scale to calculate the weight of batter that should be put into each pan. Before you begin, weigh the empty bowl first. Once the batter is made, weigh the batter and the bowl together.

While you're preparing the batter, make sure your oven is preheating. Because any time spent standing will impact the cake's rise. When your batter is ready, pop it in the oven as quickly as possible.

Bake for 20 minutes, or till the recipe specifies. To test if the cake is done, insert a skewer into the centre. When a toothpick inserted into the centre of the cake comes out clean, the cake is done. A cooked cake shrinks and starts to peel away from the pan's sides. Another sign is the fragrance of freshly baked cake in your kitchen.

Place the cakes on a cooling rack to cool completely. Remove the baking paper from the pan and set it on a wire rack coated with a new piece of oiled baking paper to prevent it from sticking. Wrap each cake in cling film while it's still somewhat warm if you're baking them ahead of time. The crusts become softer and simpler to cut as a result. Allow it to cool before serving.

The beautiful thing about cake decorating is that you don't actually need a lot of tools to do it properly! Here are a few go-to decorating tools.
Cake Turntable: A turntable allows your cake to spin while you design it, and the non-slip base keeps everything in place. This tool is ideal for icing and piping borders on your cake.
Angled Spatula: Angled spatulas come in a range of sizes and are ideal for the filling between cake layers as well as crumb coating.

Icing Smoother (or bench scraper): This tool is essential for achieving clean, smooth edges and tops on your cake

Cake Leveller: Use a cake leveller to level or torte your cakes uniformly. Most levellers feature adjustable blades, allowing you to cut your cakes in half or remove the crown without worrying about cutting on an angle.

You've worked so hard to produce a delightfully fluffy sponge; for the greatest texture, serve it at room temperature! The texture will be denser if served cold.

Let it cake your breath away!

You've worked so hard to produce a delightfully fluffy sponge; for the greatest texture, serve it at room temperature! The texture will be denser if served cold.

Let it cake your breath away!