Wheat sponge cake- refined flour free/heart healthy and home made cake for all age groups

Wheat sponge cake

Wheat sponge cake

Preparation time- 10 mins
Cooking time-  20mins 
Total time- 30mins

Ingredients :

1. Corn flour-3 tsp
2. Wheat flour- 1 cup
3. Baking powder-1 tsp
4. Salt-1/2 tsp
5. Egg-3 no.
6. Powdered sugar- 1 cup
7. Vanilla essence-1 tsp
8. Butter- 20 gm

Method:

Step 1: Take wheat flour, corn flour, baking powder and salt in a strainer, sift it two times and keep it aside.

Step 2: In a bowl, beat sugar and butter using a handheld electric mixer. Then, add eggs slowly one by one and beat it. Add vanilla essence and beat it. Add the strained powder and mix it well. 

Step 3: Take cake pan, apply butter liberally and dust it with maida and spread butter paper. Pour the prepared mixture into the cake pan and tap it on both sides to expel the air bubbles.

Wheat sponge cake mixture before baking

Step 5: Preheat the oven at 180 Degree Celsius and bake the cake in conventional mode at 180 Degree Celsius for 25 minutes. After 25 minutes, insert a long stick into the baked cake and withdraw it. If the stick is sticky, you have to bake it for another 5 minutes.

Step 6: Take the pan from the oven and allow it to cool.

This cake is very soft and even if you keep it in a refrigerator for 2-3 days, still it will be very soft....really!!

Tips and warnings

• For baking cakes, use medium height metal rack

Suggestions
Antenatal diet

• Reduce sugar to the half amount, as it increases blood sugar level
• Suggest for a minimum intake
• Reduce butter, as it increases cholesterol level

Diet for lactating mothers

• Reduce sugar to the half amount, as it increases blood sugar level
• Suggest for a minimum intake
• Reduce butter, as it increases cholesterol level

Postnatal diet

• Reduce sugar to the half amount, as it increases blood sugar level
• Suggest for a minimum intake
• Reduce butter, as it increases cholesterol level

Diet for diabetic persons

• Reduce sugar to the half amount, as it increases blood sugar level
• Suggest for a minimum intake
• Reduce butter, as it increases cholesterol level

Diet for hypertensive persons

• Reduce sugar to the half amount, as it increases blood sugar level
• Suggest for a minimum intake
• Reduce butter, as it increases cholesterol level

Diet for cardiac persons

• Reduce sugar to the half amount, as it increases blood sugar level
• Suggest for minimum intake, as it contains egg yolk
• Reduce butter, as it increases cholesterol level

Diet for kids

• Suggest minimum intake for kids, as it contains baking powder.