No butter cake/sponge/dessert...anything?? Help needed!!

lemonade_money

Erm...a little embarrassed here I have a few friends round for dinner and am making a delicious dinner....BUT have forgotten to buy the butter to make the dessert (was only planning to make a sponge cake) and have no marg. What else can I make? Have all basic baking ingredients and any help will be VERY gratefully received!!!

Pink.

Hi lemonade_money,

If you have some cream, what about meringues or pavlova?

There are some recipes and links for cakes without butter in these older threads that might help:

HM Cakes the "lighter" versions

Does anyone know a recipe for fat free cake

Margerine in a sponge

Pink

meanmarie

You could make a butterless sponge....separate your eggs, beat yolks and sugar until creamy and holding a shape when you lift beaters, sift in s.r. flour and then stiff whisk whites and fold in with a cutting movement, using a metal spoon, cook as normal...should rise well but if you are nervous about this sift in half a teaspoon baking powder with flour...good luck

Marie

Sarahsaver

Have you got any vegetable oil? I use this as an alternative all the time and it makes very light sponges.

lemonade_money

Many thanks all - gorgeous butter-free sponge in oven!