Gluten-Free Sponge Cake with Cocoa
Do you want to make the perfect, fluffy, gluten-free sponge cake? This is the recipe you were looking for! I was amazed by how delicious this gluten-free sponge cake with cocoa and dry fruits turned out!
Ingredients
- 200 g Schar gluten-free flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 4 eggs
- ½ cup caster sugar
- ½ cup grapeseed oil + more for greasing the tray
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp cocoa
- 1 Tbsp dry fruits I used papaya and apricots. You can use raisins too
- a pinch of sea salt
Instructions
- Pre-heat oven at 356F/180C.
- Grease the tray with some oil. The sizes of my tray are approx. 10cm x 30cm.
- Separate egg yolks from the egg whites.
- Whisk egg whites until foamy. Add sea salt.
- Whisk egg yolks with sugar, oil, vanilla extract and baking powder.
- Mix both slowly using a spatula.
- Slowly add flour and incorporate. Add the dry fruits. Mix again using a spatula.
- Save 1 Tbsp of the batter and put it in a small bowl. Add cocoa and mix.
- Pour the composition from the large bowl in the greased tray.
- Pour the cocoa mixture over the batter in the sweet bread tray. You can make the swirls on top using a teaspoon.
- Put it in the oven and let it bake for 35 minutes.
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