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Pan di Spagna or Italian sponge cake

Course Dessert
Cuisine Italian
Servings 1 medium cake
Author Claudia Rinaldi

Ingredients

  • 3 eggs
  • 3 teaspoons boiling water
  • 2.6 oz 00 flour 75 gr or 1/2 cup + 1 teaspoon
  • 2.6 oz white sugar 75 gr or 1/3 cup + 1 teaspoon
  • a few drops of vanilla essence or 1/2 lemon zest
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • 2 tablespoons sugar
  • a medium size cake mold

Instructions

  1. Preheat the oven to 320°F (160°C).

  2. Place the eggs in the stand mixer's bowl, whisk and add the teaspoons of boiling water - one at the time. You should get a frothy mixture.

  3. Still mixing, add the sugar and whisk until frothy again.

  4. Pour in the flour through a fine sieve and delicately, to incorporate as much air as possible, mix with a wooden spoon.

  5. Add the lemon zest and mix.
  6. Butter the cake mold and sprinkle it with a tablespoon of sugar, shake and swing to make sure it adheres to all the surface, including walls.

  7. Pour the mixture inside the mold and bake 35-45 minutes (stick in a wooden skewer or a knife, if it comes out clean, the cakes is ready).

  8. Bring to room temperature before unmolding the cake.