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- DictionarySponge cake/ˈspənj ˌkāk/
noun
- 1. a soft, light cake, especially one made from a batter containing eggs which have been beaten into a foamy consistency.
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Sponge cake is a light cake made with eggs, flour and sugar, sometimes leavened with baking powder. Some sponge cakes do not contain egg yolks, like angel food cake, but most of them do. Sponge cakes, leavened with beaten eggs, originated during the Renaissance, possibly in Spain. The sponge cake is thought to be one of the first non-yeasted cakes, and the earliest attested sponge cake recipe in E... Wikipedia