Sponge Cake

Recipe courtesy Emeril Lagasse

Show: Emeril LiveEpisode: Cooking with Squash

Rated: 3 stars out of 5Rate itRead users' reviews (16)

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1 (17 by 12-inch) sheet cake

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Ingredients

1/2 cup milk
2 teaspoons plus 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
8 large eggs
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
1 cup all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Directions

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. In a small saucepan, warm the milk and 2 teaspoons of the butter together over medium-low heat. With an electric mixer fitted with a wire whip, beat the eggs and 1 cup of the sugar on medium-high speed in a large mixing bowl until the mixture is pale yellow, thick, and tripled in volume, about 8 minutes. With the mixer on low speed, beat in the warm milk mixture. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt into a small mixing bowl. Add half the flour mixture to the egg mixture and blend thoroughly until smooth. Repeat with the other half. Add the vanilla and mix gently. Grease a 17 by 12-inch baking pan or jelly-roll pan with the remaining 2 tablespoons butter. Sprinkle evenly with the remaining 2 tablespoons sugar. Pour the cake batter into the pan, spreading it evenly. Bake until the cake springs back when touched, about 15 minutes. Cool for about 2 minutes, then gently flip it out onto a large sheet of parchment paper. Let cool completely.

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L Pittsburgh, PA 02-07-2010
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READ THE REVIEWS
Rated: 2 stars out of 5

I wish I had read the reviews. My cake was eggy and dense. Nothing like the pictures shown here!
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Rita Carlsbad, CA 01-24-2010
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can't call this a cake
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

I wish I had check the rating on this cake. It smelled good while I was baking it, but It doesn't look or taste like a cake.... It was flat and eggy. I want to where the sponge is on this cake. They should call it a rubble mat.Read more
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h fairfax, VA 12-26-2009
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HORRIBLE!!!!
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

I regret not reading the reviews before making this recipe... what's worse is that I made it TWICE! The first time I didn't... have any vanilla extract and the batter "deflated" by the time I got it. Then, I made a fresh batch. I am sooo disappointed. I wasted my time and all these ingredients. This recipe should really be removed! Who wants to eat a dense egg pancake?Read more
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ansar woodburn, OR 07-28-2009
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Should have read the reviews :(
Rated: 2 stars out of 5

Well honestly thinking they should take this recipe off. I followed the recipe and it did come out. I lined the pan with... parchment paper and butter, so no problems there. The cake is very eggy. I add some extra flour hoping that wouldn't make it less eggy...like everyone Else's....no luck. I think my family will still eat it...however it won't fix my craving for fresh strawberry short cake :( Anyone have a better sponge cake recipe? I'm all ears!!!Read more
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Anna Collingswood, NJ 07-20-2009
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Equally Disappointed.
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

I had made this cake for a friends birthday and since I had a time restraint I thought it would be perfect! WRONG! Now I am... not a beginner at baking but this cake was nothing but a disaster from the beginning. The egg mixture wouldn't double let alone triple in volume. When I attempted to bake it and it wouldn't bake evenly in the recommended pan. After I got it mostly baked I couldn't get it out of said pan. Luckily I was planning on carving out the cake (to look like Tastykakes Butterscotch Krimpets) so I cut it into three parts and had to peal it from the pan. While it still tasted decent it turned out more like a pancake than a sponge cake. I was really embarrassed that it turned out so poorly, considering this was for a present! I would not make this cake from this recipe ever again!Read more
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Sarah Houston, TX 12-06-2008
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So disappointed
Rated: 1 stars out of 5

Either the 8 eggs are a mistake, or Emeril needs to put in MUCH more specific directions. I am so sad about how this turned... out, and I consider myself to be a pretty good baker. I tried to make this for my husband's birthday cake, and the result was...flat. Eggy. Rubbery. The commenters who called this a rubber mat were right. Blecch.Read more