Light Lime Sponge Cake
"This is a tangy but sweet and light cake that I developed. It's great served plain on it's own, or maybe with a little whipped cream or icing sugar. And the best part, it's relatively guilt-free!"
photo by stormylee
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
10
ingredients
- 1⁄4 cup lime juice
- 1⁄4 cup water
- 1 cup sifted all-purpose flour
- 1 1⁄2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1 dash salt
- 3 eggs
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 3 teaspoons grated lime zest
directions
- Preheat oven to 350.
- In small saucepan, heat lime juice and water until bubbles form around edge of pan.
- Remove from heat; set aside.
- Sift flour with baking powder and salt; set aside.
- In small bowl of electric mixer, at high speed, beat eggs until thick and light yellow.
- Gradually add sugar, beating until mixture is smooth and well blended, about 5 minutes(it will get thicker when you add sugar).
- At low speed, blend in flour mixture just until smooth.
- Add lime juice/water and lime zest, beating just mixed.
- Pour batter right away into ungreased 9 inch angel food cake pan.
- Bake 30 minutes, or until cake tester inserted in center comes out clean. Trace edges of pan with a knife and turn pan over onto serving plate; let cool completely.
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Reviews
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Terrific flavor without the glaze. I think I over mixed mine as it got a bit tough. -
it tasted soapy and it hardly rose -
True to its name: a sponge cake that is light (both in texture and in calories!), limey and lovely! The zesty lime is a great addition - plain sponge cake is, to me anyway, a bit boring on its own but this cake has character! I used the juice and zest of 1,5 limes - 1/4 cup juice (as called for) and about 2 ts zest. Needed to bake closer to 40 minutes before the cake tested done, but I'm not very familiar with my current oven yet, so my oven may be to blame. Thank you for a lovely recipe! -
it was really dense and moist and more like banana bread but it may have been because i added a strawberry puree otherwise it made a nice presentation and tasted fine
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Culinary school drop-out (happy cook)!
My name is Meg, as my public name might suggest, and I'm 20 years old. So far, I've been a cook my whole life, at home and in restaurants, working as a Baker's Assistant right now. I was raised in a commercial bakery and general store as well run by my aunt and mom. I'm engaged to an amazing guy, who I met in high school in a restaurant prep course. We both went to college for Culinary Arts/Chef Training, but neither found the program very satisfying. As it stands, we're both happiest cooking, so long as it's not in a kitchen lab.
I've been nosing around 'Zaar since I was about 13 or 14, and it's been a huge source of learning for me, back when I didn't even know what a roux was, haha. If you've seen me around before, I'm the former SugarMegnolia.
Also, I write a blog, however, I'm not always the best at keeping up with it, but try to put in my best effort whenever I get around to writing. The link is here, please give it a quick look-see!
