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Cornflour sponge cake

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gransruleok Sat 09-Dec-23 16:04:42

Many years ago I used to make a cornflour sponge. I remember it was a bit different to the usual sponge because it was quite dry, almost crisp, delicious. I have many recipes collected over the years but just cannot find that one. Can anyone help please?

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Esmay Sat 09-Dec-23 18:16:31

l've made this cake for over 65 years from a recipe from my Grandma's 1934 cookery book .

If you make a classic sponge cake -
4 eggs
8 ozs soft butter
8 ozs castor sugar
I teaspoonful baking powder
I teaspoonful vanilla essence
8 ozs flour -
And replace 2ozs of the flour with cornflour - you'll get a very nice balance -not too dry , but different .

I used to add Camp
Coffee and decorate it with walnuts for a change .

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Baggs Sat 09-Dec-23 18:34:32

I ggled cornflour sponge cake and found this:
honestcooking.com/cornflour-sponge-cake/

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gransruleok Sun 17-Dec-23 15:53:33

Thank you Esmay, that’s very welcome.

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Oldnproud Sun 17-Dec-23 16:23:02

I have my Grandma's old recipe for 'Sand Cake', which might be a similar thing - I seem to remember its crust possibly being crunchy.

6 oz marg
6 oz sugar
3 eggs
Half teasp vanilla essence
4 oz cornflour
4 oz plain flour 1 teasp baking powder
2 to 3 tablespoons milk (thing these were larger than a modern tablespoon)

Creaming method.
Gas reg. 3.5 for between 1 hour and 1 hour 30 mins.

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