Air cakes

The dough for air sponge cakes is prepared very quickly, so you should start by turning on the oven. By the end of the kneading process, it will just reach the desired temperature, this will reduce the total cooking time and make the finished biscuit as airy as possible.

Sift the flour into a deep bowl, it is better if you can sift it twice, then it will be saturated with oxygen, which makes the baking airy and soft. In the sifting process, add salt and baking powder.

Soft butter (it should also be taken out of the refrigerator in advance) is whipped with sugar until it turns white. Readiness is determined by the complete dissolution of sugar and an increase in weight. Add eggs to the butter mixture and continue to beat until smooth. It is better to introduce eggs one at a time, having previously broken them into a cup, so it will be possible to avoid getting stale products into the dough.

Without stopping whipping, pour half of the flour in small portions. Mix the milk and vanilla extract (if we replace it with vanilla sugar or vanilla, add it to the flour at the initial stage). Pour the milk into the dough in a thin stream, while continuing to work with the mixer.

As soon as all the milk is evenly combined with the dough, add the rest of the flour. At this stage, you can continue to beat with a mixer or mix the flour with a spatula, as convenient.

Grease the molds with butter and sprinkle with flour, this will allow the dough not to stick and the biscuit will move well away from the walls. We lay out the dough according to the forms (if there is one form, you can bake everything at once, and cut it into cakes ready-made). We level the top and send it to the preheated oven. Readiness depends on the volume of the dough, check with a wooden skewer.

As soon as the sponge cakes are ready, we take them out of the oven. After waiting for 5 minutes, remove from the molds and leave to cool on the grill. We use the completely cooled cakes to assemble the cake or simply pour it with a topper and serve it with tea.

Bon appetit!