Basic sponge cake

This is a very simple sponge cake that you can try at home in a microwave.

Ingredients

Refined Flour (Maida) - 1 tablespoon

Castor Sugar - 1 cup

Cornflour - 2/3 cup

Eggs - 3

Cocoa Powder - 1.5 tablespoon

Vanilla Essence - 1 teaspoon

Baking powder - 1 teaspoon

Salt - To taste

How to do it all:

1. Sort Egg Whites and beat it up nice and fluffy. Then slowly add Castor sugar to this slowly and let it mix well. If you dont have a beater, a juicer/mixer would do great too!

2. Beat the egg yolk as well and mix it in the (1st) mixture. Mix in Vanilla essence.

3. Meanwhile sieve together the flour, baking powder, cocoa powder, salt.

4. Now in a wide vessel, put the flour mixture and to this slowly add the egg mixture. You dont have to beat this mix again. Just an easy hand is enough. Make sure no lumps are formed. If you have beaten the eggs well, you wont have trouble with lumps at all.

5. Place this cake mix in a greased vessel (Microwave safe one ofcourse)

6. Place it in Microwave mode HIGH (800) for 2 mins. Then check if it is done. Else place it on HIGH again for 30 seconds. Else the cake is ready to serve.

Tips: If you want a Coffee flavored cake, you can pour in Instant coffee over the cake while it is still hot, or any flavored jam dissolved in water to give you that flavor.

If you are a Diabetic, you could go in for just 1/2 cup of Castor Sugar instead of 1 cup.

Garnishing suggestions: People who have an easy hand at icing, can go in for a beautiful icing on this cake followed by colourful fruits or simply cherries!