Fruity sponge cake
Cooking time
Prep: 10 mins Cook: 20 minsSkill level
EasyServings
Serves 8Reader Sue McGann devised this delicious low-fat cake recipe
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Sponge is freezable
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 214
- protein
- 7g
- carbs
- 40g
- fat
- 4g
- saturates
- 1g
- fibre
- 0g
- sugar
- 30g
- salt
- 0.34g
Ingredients
- butter or oil, for greasing
- 50g plain flour
- 3 tbsp cornflour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 4 eggs, separated
- 175g caster sugar
For the filling
- 295g can mandarin segments, drained
- 200g tub low-fat fromage frais
- icing sugar, for dusting
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Method
- 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.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, February 2009
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
I halved this recipe and made 4 large cupcakes topped with strawberries! I also halved the sugar for sweetener worked just as well! Best recipe ever... All the recipes made with butter are too greasy and not got a nice texture also I found this recipe had a good rise. Why have a slice of cake for 400... 500 calories or more when you can have this for just 214calories! its fantastic!
My son is diabetic, and the rule of thumb the hospital nutritionists give us is that if the sugar is under a third of the carbohydrate content then it will not affect his blood sugars badly. (You can check labelled food by looking at the Carbohydrate content then seeing if the "of which sugars" is under 1/3 of the first figure).
On that basis this cake would be unsuitable for a diabetic, in fact more unsuitable than a standard recipe because of the low proportion of flour. I mention this becasue there is a real confusion about "healthy" (usually low-fat, but often high sugar) and suitable for diabetics.
However I also think it is fine to have the odd treat especially at the end of a meal where the effect is cushioned by the balance of the meal just eaten.
