Golden Sponge Cake

Title:
Golden Sponge Cake

Yield:
1 Servings

Categories:
Cakes,
Family




Ingredients:





 1 1/4 c  Cake flour; sifted


 1 1/4 ts Baking powder


   1/4 ts Salt


     1 c  Sugar; PLUS extra


     2 tb Sugar


     9    Egg yolks; beaten until


          -thick


     1 ts Lemon extract


     1 ts Orange extract


     6 tb Cold water






 Sift flour once, measure, add baking powder and salt and sift together


 three times. Add sugar gradually to beaten egg yolks, beating after each


 addition until thick and light. Fold in flour, a small amount at a time,


 and blend. Add flavoring, then add water gradually, mixing only enough to


 blend. Bake in UNgreased tube pan in slow oven (325 degrees F_ for 1 hour.


 Remove from oven and invert until cold.


 


 NOTE This was a favorite cake in our house, while I was growing up. Every


 time my mom made an angel food cake (which was quite often), she almost


 always made a sponge cake a few days later (with the leftover egg yolks


 that she'd put in a tightly covered jar).


 


 Me ke aloha, Mary


 


 Recipe by: Cake Secrets


 


 Posted to TNT - Prodigy's Recipe Exchange Newsletter  by


 MarySpero@prodigy.com (MS MARY E SPERO) on Sep 18, 1997