Greek Sponge Cake
Greek Sponge Cake

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, greek sponge cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Greek Sponge Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Greek Sponge Cake is something that I have loved my entire life.

Sponge Cake (pantespani, in Greek) is the base for many desserts. Using the above two techniques, you can make different birthday cakes but also many other desserts. Pantespani is a traditional light sponge cake, soaked in a light syrup. It can be served as is, with toppings such as whipped cream and strawberries (similar to strawberry shortcake), with some toasted almonds, or other toppings of your choice, and without the syrup as any other sponge cake.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook greek sponge cake using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Greek Sponge Cake:
  1. Make ready 5 Eggs
  2. Make ready 200 ml Olive Oil
  3. Get 1 Lemon Zest
  4. Take 225 grams Greek Yogurt
  5. Prepare 225 grams Caster Sugar
  6. Make ready 200 grams Semolina
  7. Prepare 150 grams Plain Flour
  8. Take 75 grams Ground Almonds
  9. Get 1 tsp Baking Powder
  10. Get 1 Juice of Lemon
  11. Prepare 50 ml Honey

With a soft spatula combine walnuts into the mixture. Carefully fold in egg whites, stiffly beaten. Pour hot syrup over the cake. Cut into squares or diamon-shaped pieces.

Instructions to make Greek Sponge Cake:
  1. Pre heat oven @ gas mark 5 or 180c. Put the lemon (now zested) and the honey to one side to make the syrup topping later.
  2. Mix all the other ingredients together in a large bowl until smooth & creamy.
  3. Add to a medium ceramic or glass baking dish (around 20 by 30 cm), rather than a cake tin.
  4. Place in the oven for 30-35 minutes until to top have risen slightly in the centre and the colour is light golden brown.
  5. Leave to cool for an hour.
  6. With a sharp knife, poke lots of hole in the top of the cake, ready to add the lemon and honey.
  7. Add the lemon juice and honey in a small pan and heat until the honey has melted with the lemon into a warm liquid. Take a tea spoon and add this to the cake top to give a glaze which will seep into the sponge.
  8. Leave for another hour before eating so that the syrup can seep into the sponge.
  9. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

Pour hot syrup over the cake. Cut into squares or diamon-shaped pieces. Syrup: Combine water and sugar; bring to a boil and. Heat up the milk till warm to touch and dissolve the cocoa. Pour in the cocoa mix in the remaining cake mix.

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