Fatless Sponge Recipe

[IsolaPribby]

This is a question for the bakers. I will be making a fatless sponge for my daughter's birthday cake, and need some help with the recipe. I made one with my mother recently, but she used mugs to measure the flour and sugar. I need to replace some of the flour with cocoa powder, so would like actual weights to work with. I have looked on line, but there seems to be a huge variation in quantities. So am asking on here for tried and tested recipes!

for you all

This recipe never fails me

3 large eggs
5oz caster sugar
4 oz self raising flour
1 tbsp warm water

4 eggs
100g caster sugar
100g self raising flour (replace 25g flour with cocoa).

You are right - didn't realise there are so many variations for basically the same cake.

@Prizepudding thank you so much!

Do you know if I can substitute cocoa powder ounce for ounce?

@PaulGallico thank you too

Usually it’s fine to do so but not sure you would want to substitute more than an oz given the sr flour is needed for rising

Don't eggs contain fat though?

A couple of eggs isn’t fat like 4oz of butter is fat. There are around 80 calories per egg compared to 740 ish calories in 4 oz of lurpak butter.

Although eggs contain some cholesterol, the amount of saturated fat we eat has more of an effect on the amount of cholesterol in our blood than the cholesterol we get from eating eggs

www.bhf.org.uk/what-we-do/news-from-the-bhf/news-archive/2015/may/eggs-and-cholesterol