Vanilla Sponge Cake

Vanilla sponge cake recipe is one which is based on flour (usually wheat flour), sugar, and eggs, sometimes leavened with baking powder, that derives its structure from an egg foam into which the other ingredients are folded. The cake is thought to be one of the first of the non-yeasted cakes. This baking recipe is perhaps the most common variation produced. Other than being eaten as it is, it is also essential as the base for a variety of other cakes especially for mousse based products. The vanilla sponge cake recipe here for a basic sponge made without any emusifiers or stabilisers. If the texture is somewhat coarse compared to those which you may find on the supermarket shelves, do bear in mind that the baking recipe here is actual method used for as long as people started to bake. I just feel like keeping this tradition alive for as long as I can before instant products take over our lives. Do e mail if you need a more refined fluffier sponge recipe. But to me, nothing beats the satisfaction of creating the original grub.

Below is a video showing you how to make Vanilla Sponge Cake

Recipe
4 nos Whole Eggs
110 gm Sugar
1/4 tsp Vanilla Essence
110 gm Soft Flour
25 gm Melted Butter

Method
1) Whisk eggs and sugar together till fluffy (ribbon state).
2) Mix in vanilla essence.
3) Fold in flour gently. (Refer to video) The way you fold in the flour will affect the end product. Please refer to visual for the proper technique to fold. 
4) Last of all fold in melted butter.
5) Grease the sides and bottom of a 20cm (8") cake ring.
6) Pour the batter into the ring till 3/4 full.
7) Bake in oven at 180 C (356 F) for 25 to 30 minutes till golden brown and edges of cakes is the same texture as the center. Altenatively you may also insert a toothpick to the center of cake, if it comes out clean then you know the cake is done.

Recipe makes 1 X 20cm (8") round cake ring.