Hot milk sponge cake – easy and delicious

Hot milk sponge cake is a perfect breakfast or afternoon tea cake. It is soft and delicate. It is also really simple and quick to prepare. Just a few ingredients that we all have at home, a saucepan for the hot milk, a bowl and a mixer. A must try.

Hot milk sponge cake – easy and delicious

Hot milk sponge cake – easy and delicious soft milk cake.

Course sweets and desserts

Cuisine kid friendly, vegetarian

Keyword basic recipe, butter cake, easy cake, simple cake, soft cake, sweet breakfast

Prep Time 20

Cook Time 30

Total Time 50

Servings 20 cm x 20 cm baking tray

Calories 123kcal

Ingredients

240 g all-purpose flour
160 ml milk
80 g butter I used unsalted butter made by Lurpak
4 eggs
220 g sugar
1.5 tsp baking powder
q.b. powdered sugar
lemon zest or vanilla extract optional

Instructions

Instructions: Hot milk sponge cake – easy and delicious

For this recipe I used unsalted butter made by Lurpak.
For this recipe the eggs should be at room temperature.
Break the eggs into a bowl. Add sugar and beat the eggs until they become light in color and fluffy and they have duplicate their volume. About 10 – 15 minutes.
Turn off the mixer. Add sifted flour and baking powder and using a spoon gently incorporate them by making the movements from the bottom to the top of the bowl.
Heat the milk with the butter until the butter is completely dissolved. Remove the milk from the heat before the boiling point.
Pour half of the milk into the egg/flour mixture and stir. Add the other half and mix until combined. At this point you can add some extra flavour to you cake like for example lemon zest or vanilla extract.
Line a square pan with parchment paper. Pour in the mixture and bake in preheated static oven at 180 °C for 25 – 30 minutes.
Check if the cake is ready by putting a toothpick at the center. If the toothpick comes out clean that means it is ready. If it is still wet and sticky you should extende the baking time.