Healthy treat recipe for 8 people, takes only 20 mins; recipe has butter, plain flour, cornflour, baking powder, egg, caster sugar, mandarin segment, fromage frais and icing sugar.
Fruity sponge cake
Course: Healthy treat
Servings
8
servings
Prep time
10 mins
Ingredients
- Egg: 4 eggs, separated
- Butter: butter or oil, for greasing
- Caster Sugar: 175g caster sugar
- Plain Flour: 50g plain flour
- Baking Powder: 1 tsp baking powder
- Cornflour: 3 tbsp cornflour
- Fromage Frais: 200g tub low-fat fromage frais
- Icing Sugar: icing sugar, for dusting
- Mandarin Segment: 295g can mandarin segment, drained
Directions
- Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Grease then line the base and sides of 2 x 20cm sandwich tins with greaseproof paper. Sieve the flours and baking powder together.
- Use electric hand beaters to whisk the egg whites until stiff, then briefly whisk in the sugar. Beat the egg yolks quickly, then whisk into the whites. Fold in the dry ingredients using a large metal spoon, then spoon the mixture into the tins and level the tops. Bake for 18-20 mins until risen, light golden and a skewer inserted into the middle comes out clean. Cool in the tins for 10 mins, then gently remove and leave to cool completely.
- Mix the mandarins and fromage frais together. Peel away the greaseproof paper, sandwich the cakes with the mandarin mix, then dust with the icing sugar to serve. Best eaten on the day it's made.
