A good basic recipe for delicious homemade cake layers! See our best tips for cutting the cake layers without any problems.
Recipe for cake layer
No traditional birthday without layer cake. Of course, you can always choose to buy ready-made sponge cake layers from the supermarket – or you can not and instead bake them yourself! 😉 It’s not that difficult, and they taste 100 times better.
Here I will show you how to do it. It is a really good basic recipe that you can jazz up as you like, for example with cocoa, chopped nuts, or something else entirely. If, for example, you want to make chocolate layers, you just need to replace half a deciliter of the flour with half a deciliter of cocoa.
Feel free to let your imagination run wild – or follow the recipe exactly as it is! Simple, sweet cake layers are also really delicious.
Layer Cake Sponge Recipe
Servings: cake layers
Cake Layer
A good basic recipe for delicious homemade cake layers! See our best tips for cutting the cake layers without any problems.
Ingredients
- 4 pcs. Egg
- 148 gram Sugar
- 132 gram Wheat Flour
- 5 gram Baking Soda
Instructions
- Crack the eggs into a bowl and add sugar.
- Whisk until airy.
- Put flour and baking powder in a separate bowl and mix together, then sift it over the bowl with the egg mixture.
- Grease a springform (mine is Ø 24 cm) and pour the batter into the form. Use the back of a tablespoon to push the batter from the center towards the edge of the springform, to avoid it rising too much in the middle - we want it as flat as possible.
- Bake it at the bottom of a preheated oven at 200 degrees Celsius (392 degrees Fahrenheit) for 30 minutes. If you think it is getting too dark on top, you can cover it with a piece of baking paper while it finishes baking.
- Remove the cake from the oven and turn it out of the springform, so it lies "upside down". Let it cool on a rack.
- Cut the cake into 3 thin cake layers with a knife. Insert 8-10 toothpicks in a straight line around the cake to easily mark where you want to make the first cut. This way the knife has something to guide it.