Sponge Cake - No Eggs, No Oven

 Sponge cake is one of the basic cakes. I have a recipe to be followed in microwave. Like with any cake the magic lies in the sponge sheet. Try this Microwave Cake recipe for hassle-free ending. I am not using any eggs, makes it a vegetarian recipe. Key is to follow the recipe to a T.

Ingredients for Cake:

1. Unsalted Butter - 4 TBSP
2. Cream Cheese - 4 TBSP
3. Sugar - 1 Cup
4. Milk - 1 and 1/2 Cup
5. All Purpose Flour - 2 Cup
6. Baking Powder - 1 TSP
7. Baking Soda - 1/2 TSP
8. Vanilla Essence - 1 TSP

Ingredients for Whip Cream:

1. Heavy Whipped Cream - 1 Cup
2. Granular Sugar - 2.5 TBSP
3. Lemon Oil - 1/2 TSP
4. Food Coloring

Steps for Cake:

1. First step is to divide ingredients for cake into two. We are making two layers. Bring unsalted butter and cream cheese to room temperature. Mix both with sugar.

2. Warm the milk and start adding milk, little by little. 

3. Sieve flour and add baking soda and baking powder to it. Now add this flour mixture to above milk and sugar mix.

4. One way to mix all is using cake mixer. In this case I using only whisker and found it easy that way as none of the ingredients are cold.

5. Now prepare glass container 9*9 inches in size by spraying cooking oil or grease it. Dust in some flour at the bottom or use parchment paper. Pour all batter equally. You may need spatula to even the top surface.

6. I have microwave of 1100 V. At high settings, bake for 4:30 minutes. Do the toothpick test by inserting it in the middle. If it is not completely clean, bake for another 30 sec. Pull out of microwave on wired surface. Let it cool for 15 minutes.

7. Turn it gently over, the bottom may be warm so tap at the bottom so spong falls on wired surface. Let it cool down for another 30 minutes or so. Now refrigerate the sponge for at least 2 hours before applying filling. Repeat all steps for second sponge.

8. For fillings, add heavy whipped cream, granular sugar, lemon oil ingredients in cake mixer. Use whisk attachment and whisk on highest setting - i.e. 10 for 2 to 4 minutes, until you have stiff whipped cream. Add food coloring at end. I divided the whipped cream. In half I used 1/2 TSP yellow color with 2 drops of green color. This mix wix spoon.

9. Have both sponges cooled down in refrigerator. I used bread knife to cut the edges in exact straight line.

10. Place a dollop of whipping cream in the middle of tray. Then place first sponge. Apply sugar syrup. 

11. Add in white whipped cream filling. Then place second sponge on top. Apply sugar syrup. Refrigerate for 15 min. Followed by applying light green whipped cream outside and top. I decorated with few M & Ms.