Sponge Cake

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There's got to be a typo. "8" looks like a "3" in sloppy handwriting.
Try this recipe with three eggs, and your sponge cake will come out as perfectly as mine did. It's the same recipe, incidentally, that I've been using all my life.

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Sponge cake? More like rubber cake...

This recipe is a disaster. I was assigned to bake a sponge cake, and although I should have read the reviews on the recipe before choosing it, I usually trust Food Network to provide delicious, edible recipes. This recipe created an inedible, eggy, rubber mat. I could pick it up and wobble it around in the air like a floor mat. Not how a sponge cake should taste at all.

I learned the importance of reading reviews on recipes before using them though!

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I agree that 1 star is too much for this eggy rubber floor mat. Please don't try this recipe. I threw it in the garbage. It was not fit to eat.

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I think even 1 star is way too much....This was HORRIBLE...Had to throw it away. Since I was making a large Birthday cake, I doubled the recipe. It was FLAT, EGGY, and like RUBBER!!! I was sure that I must have done something wrong, so I tried again....Thanks Foodnetwork, now I'm out 32 eggs and have yet to bake the Birthday cake!!! WISH I HAD READ THE REVIEWS FIRST!

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Mr. Lagasse or his staffinette have made an error, the 18 x 12 in. pan should be baked for 35-45 minutes at 360. Not 15 minutes. Also, elevation needs to be taken into effect. Increase or decrease wet and dry products as needed.

It is because of typos and errors like this, poor editing, and lack of communication between site clients and web managers that I rarely use www recipes: no one can succeed with a recipe when recipes are inaccurate, as in this case.

Consider using, instead of a sheet pan, unless you live in a nursing home, or daycare center, two 10" pans and bake "cake" at 360 for 35 minutes.

When one sees a mistake, it is right to ask the webmasters to remove—or at least correct—it. www.foodnetwork.com's failure to remove/edit the recipe is a slap in the face of the chef and the site's readers/chefs.

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this is by far the worst recipe, first of all the cake takes about 3 times longer to bake in wich the recipe does not state , and once the cake turns to about a golden brown colour and it looks done the inside is still a thick sticky batter texture, cand continues to rise, once taken out of the oven cake deflates, if your thinking of making this cake you may aswell make an angle cake forget this recipie.

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first i thought maybe i shouldn't use this recipe since all the reviews were horrible except one or two. but i just went for it and tried it, it's a great sponge cake and just don't overmix the flour but make sure the flour is well incorporated into the egg mix.

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I read all the reviews and thought "oh looks like I just wasted a sheet of paper to write this recipe down"....but what the heck I was eager to give it a try.
And what can I say: it turned out just wonderful. I made half the recipe and it was plenty for a normal round cake pan. The cake itself is spongy and soft and tastes great! I think the only difference I made is: I folded the flour into the dough with a rubber whisk. I did not really mix it though. And I baked it 20 minutes( but baking time depends on your oven anyway.
I took all the ingredients listed (just took half and it is not too sweet.
I would recommend to prepare and bake just half of the recipe or use two baking pans. With my baking pan (Tupperware round silikon it would have been a mess in the oven if I would have used the whole recipe.
So be careful not to over-mix it when it comes to the flour.
Enjoy this wonderful cake.
And Thank you, Emeril, for this recipe!

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What a waste of ingredients and time! This is not a cake. It's an overly
sweet , eggy , flat pancake. The recipe should be thrown out of this
website. I'm sorry I didn't read the reviews before I tried it myself.
DO NOT USE THIS RECIPE.

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My husband baked this cake for my birthday. The cake batter was watery and thin and it tasted awful, not like a cake. Very disappointing for Emeril. This recipe should be removed from the website.