Better than charlotte: recipe for a lush sponge cake with apricots in 30 minutes

Iryna Melnichenko
Iryna MelnichenkoLS Food
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Recipe for sponge cake
Recipe for sponge cake . Source: Instagram video screenshot

Sponge cake is a perfect, tasty, light and fluffy dessert for tea, but it is not easy to make. It often turns out to be neither fluffy nor tall due to non-compliance with the proportions during preparation as well as due to mistakes in the cooking technique itself.

Cake for tea.
Cake for tea.

Cook Olena shared a recipe for a delicious, fluffy sponge cake with apricots that takes only 30 minutes to prepare on Instagram.

Recipe.
Recipe.

Ingredients:

  • flour - 125 g
Flour for the dough.
Flour for the dough.
  • sugar - 100 g
  • eggs - 2 pcs.
Eggs and flour.
  • sugar for rolling - 80 g
  • baking powder - 1 tsp.
Baking powder.
  • water - 100 ml
  • apricots - 5-6 pcs.

Method of preparation:

1. Wash the apricots and cut them in half. Roll each half in sugar and put them in a mold. Pour water over and bake at 180°C for 20 minutes.

Apricots and sugar.

2. Beat butter with sugar, add eggs one by one, add flour and baking powder and knead smooth dough.

Making dough.

3. Put the dough on the baked apricots and bake for another 30 minutes.

How long to bake.

Sprinkle the finished cake with powdered sugar, it will be delicious!

Lush sponge cake with apricots.

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