Recipe: Yummy Sponge cake with walnuts

Sponge cake with walnuts.

You can cook Sponge cake with walnuts using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Sponge cake with walnuts

1. You need of shift together.
2. Prepare 150 gms of all purpose flour.
3. It's 1 tsp of baking powder.
4. It's 250 gms of walnuts ( chopped into tiny bites using a chopper).
5. It's of step 1( whisk together all the ingredients mentioned until pale yellow and creamy ).
6. Prepare 6 of egg yolks.
7. It's 1 tsp of vanilla powder.
8. You need 1/4 tsp of salt.
9. It's 1 of zest of lemon.
10. It's of step 2( whisk the egg whites adding the cream of tartarand sugar till soft peaks formed).
11. It's 6 of egg whites.
12. Prepare 1/4 tsp of cream of tartar.
13. You need 100 gms of granulated sugar.

Sponge cake with walnuts step by step

1. Preheat the oven to 180 degree centigrade..
2. Line a 9" round cake pan with parchment paper..
3. Grease and dust the pan with butter and flour..
4. Add half the shifted flour to the egg yolk mixture and gently fold it..
5. Add half the egg whites to this and gently fold in..
6. Repeat both the steps again..
7. Now add the chopped walnuts and gently fold into the batter.
8. Pour the batter i into the prepared cake tin and bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes or a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean..
9. Remove from the oven and let it cool on a cooling rack for 10 minutes.
10. Remove from cake tin and cool completely before slicing..
11. Serve plain or with whipped cream..