Sponge cake

What you will not find in biscuit recipes - is soda and baking powder, sour cream and butter, starch, and condensed milk. Some beat whites and yolks separately, some together. However, there are a few simple secrets to making a sponge cake: clear proportions, the right combination of ingredients, and the optimum temperature. Try this recipe, you will immediately feel what a real biscuit should be like!

Ingredients

• 4 tablespoons of flour
• 4 eggs
• 4 tablespoons of sugar
• 1 teaspoon of lemon juice
• 1 drop of vanilla

Directions

1. Separate the yolks from the proteins.
2. Add to proteins 1 tbsp. l. sugar, lemon juice and beat until thick.
3. In a separate bowl, beat the yolks with the remaining sugar and vanilla.
4. Add sifted flour to the beaten yolks and mix with a spoon.
5. You can already turn on the oven to 200 ° C.
6. Next, carefully combine the egg whites and yolks. Spoon a lot of yolks with flour into the whipped proteins and mix with movements from top to bottom so that the proteins remain airy.
7. Again, gain a spoonful of mass and mix - neatly, but quickly enough. You should get a homogeneous thick dough with a consistency like thick sour cream.
8. Grease a baking dish or cover with parchment and pour the sponge cake dough.
9. Bake at 160-170 ° C for about 30-40 minutes. You can check the readiness of the sponge cake with a wooden stick, but open the oven no earlier than 25 minutes.