Sponge Cake for Strawberry Shortcake
Ingredients :
4 x Eggs,at room temperature
1 cup Sugar
1 tsp Vanilla
1 1/2 cup Cake flour
3 tsp Baking powder
3/4 cup Milk
Method :
* 1. Preheat oven to 325′F.
* 2. Separate eggs, placing yolks in large mixing bowl and setting whites aside. Beat yolks with sugar until very light and fluffy. Beat in vanilla.
* 3. Sift cake flour with baking powder onto waxed paper.
* 4. Fold dry ingredients alternately with milk into egg-sugar mixture.
* 5. In a separate bowl beat reserved egg whites until stiff and then fold into batter.
* 6. Pour into an ungreased 9″ tube pan and bake in preheated oven 45-50 minutes . Invert pan. When cake is cool remove from pan.