sponge mix

emmarbos

100g of self raising flour,
100g of caster sugar,
100g of butter,
2 medium eggs,
2 tbs of cold water.

Seive the self raising flour into a bowl, beat the eggs together and mix into the flour, cream in the butter with the sugar and agg to the flour, puting in the 2 tbs of cold water, and whisk until light and frothy.

Place in a tin and into a preheated oven Gas mark 5 for 15mins.

This is what i go on to make cup cakes anyway, is the same mix isnt it!?!

Lucie_2

Summer01 wrote:

I've tried to bake a sponge a couple of times over the month, but it won't rise and looks just slighter larger than a bisuit

I use 4oz of caster sugar/normal flora marg/flour and 2 eggs, any ideas what I could be doing wrong please??? Am baking on 160 for 30 mins......

did you use SR flour or plain?

Rikki

Lucie wrote:

did you use SR flour or plain?

SR for sponges.

Edinburghlass_2

carrieparkinson wrote:

fankoo all!!! im printing this page off n gonna try em tmz! i'll let you know!

If you just want to post the actual recipes you can click on the post number in the top right hand corner it will open in its own window and then click on print screen

Queenie

Edinburghlass wrote:

Quote:
Originally Posted by carrieparkinson
fankoo all!!! im printing this page off n gonna try em tmz! i'll let you know!


If you just want to post the actual recipes you can click on the post number in the top right hand corner it will open in its own window and then click on print screen

Couple of other ways to do it, which are frugal on paper/ink:-

~ at the top of the thread you will see "Thread Tools", click on that and there's a drop down menu with "Printable Version" highlighted; you could use that and it will open a 'printable' page = no pics, strict formatting.

~ you could 'copy' just the recipe bits and 'paste' them into a word (or whichever word processor you use) blank document, change the font size/type and only keep those bits which *you* want to keep; save the document, that way you always have it ready for reference, print off one copy and file it as a hard copy with your other "printed off" recipes

carrie - I'm delighted you enjoyed the biscuits :T :T

mookybargain - thank you for the recommendation :T :T

frugalfairy_3

Summer01 wrote:

I've tried to bake a sponge a couple of times over the month, but it won't rise and looks just slighter larger than a bisuit

I use 4oz of caster sugar/normal flora marg/flour and 2 eggs, any ideas what I could be doing wrong please??? Am baking on 160 for 30 mins......

How are you mixing your cake? With a mixer or a processor or by hand? Because if you're beating it by hand you may not be getting enough air into the mixture to make it spongy and rise well. You need to cream the butter and sugar together until they are nearly white in colour before adding the eggs and flour.

HTH
FF xx

System

frugalfairy wrote:

How are you mixing your cake? With a mixer or a processor or by hand? Because if you're beating it by hand you may not be getting enough air into the mixture to make it spongy and rise well. You need to cream the butter and sugar together until they are nearly white in colour before adding the eggs and flour.

HTH
FF xx

frugalfairy/Lucie - I used a mixer and also flora marg (original) and I got a flour which is for sponge cakes that you can get, so it wasn't the ordinary flour.