A sponge cake cooked in boiling water is different from the classic one. The dessert turns out to be especially lush, moist on the inside, with a delicate crust on the outside. This type of biscuit is also called chiffon due to its delicate structure.
There are several options for making a biscuit in boiling water. Anyone is perfect as a cake base. Delicious delicate base of chiffon biscuit practically does not require additional impregnation. Baking can be with nuts, honey, chocolate or vanilla, butter and even without eggs. There is a baking recipe in a slow cooker.
Chocolate sponge cake on boiling water
You will need:
- egg - 2 pcs.;
- vegetable oil - 0.5 tbsp.;
- flour - 2, 5 tbsp.;
- milk - 1 tbsp.;
- granulated sugar - 2 tbsp.;
- boiling water - 1 tbsp.;
- cocoa - 6 tbsp. l.;
- baking powder - 1.5 tsp.
Break eggs into a deep bowl and beat with sugar until thick foam forms. Add milk, vegetable oil to this mixture, stir and add cocoa powder. Whisk again with a mixer.
Sift flour with baking powder and gradually add to the liquid mass, gradually kneading the dough. It should turn out to be quite liquid.
At the end of the batch, add hot water, stir the mixture with a spoon.
Pour the resulting dough into a baking dish and place the future chocolate sponge cake in the oven at 180 ° C for 50-55 minutes. At home, you can check the readiness with a match, you need to cook until the match remains dry.
Vanilla sponge cake on boiling water: a classic step-by-step recipe
You will need:
- eggs - 4 pcs.;
- vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. l.;
- baking powder - 1 tsp;
- sugar - 190 g;
- water - 3 tbsp. l.;
- flour - 190 g;
- vanillin - on the tip of a knife.
Cooking process step by step
Combine all dry ingredients in a deep bowl. In another bowl, break the eggs, add sugar and beat until thick foam forms. The mixture should increase in volume by 2-3 times.
Combine both masses by gradually adding the dry mixture to the egg mixture. Stir gently with a silicone spatula and pour in boiling water.
Stir until smooth and pour into a silicone mold or on a greased baking sheet. Bake the sponge cake at 180 ° C for 40 minutes.
Homemade sponge cake on boiling water without eggs
Egg-free baked goods will help you not go without dessert on fast days. In addition, the time for baking such a biscuit will be reduced from 50 minutes to 20-25 minutes. This is a good and easy option for a quick weekend lunch.
You will need:
- cocoa powder - 4 tbsp. l.;
- water - 1 glass;
- instant coffee - 1/2 tsp;
- flour - 1, 5 tbsp.;
- vegetable oil - 1/4 tbsp.;
- sugar - 200 g;
- vanilla sugar - 10 g;
- lemon juice - 1 tbsp. l.;
- soda - 1 tsp.
Combine flour with cocoa, baking soda and vanilla sugar in a bowl. Dissolve coffee, sugar in boiling water, pour in vegetable oil and lemon juice.
Combine the two mixtures into a homogeneous mass, it is better to use a mixer for this. Bake the sponge cake at 180 ° C for 25 minutes. Check readiness and, if necessary, set to bake.
Biscuit on boiling water with butter
Sponge cakes with butter are porous and especially tender, so that the cake is collected without additional impregnation.
You will need:
- milk - 150 ml;
- butter with a fat content of at least 72, 5% - 75 g;
- sugar - 250 g;
- water - 150 ml;
- vanillin - 6 g;
- eggs - 4 pcs.;
- flour - 650 g;
- salt - 12 g;
- cocoa - 100 g;
- baking powder - 20 g.
Separate the whites from the yolks, beat them into a fluffy foam. Heat the milk on the stove, add sugar and butter to it. Stir until all components are dissolved and a thick, homogeneous mass is formed.
Boil the water and, as soon as it boils, add 150 g of flour into it, mix everything quickly. Cool the mixture and then stir in the yolks.
Combine all prepared mixtures, gently stirring them with a silicone or wooden spatula. Bake the sponge cake in the oven at 180 ° C for 40 minutes.
Biscuit on boiling water with honey
Honey biscuit is an interesting and original aromatic pastry, it turns out not only tasty and sweet. An ordinary cake without cutting and impregnation can be eaten as a full-fledged dessert. If desired, you can dilute the dough with any nuts, as well as raisins, prunes.
You will need:
- flour - 200 g;
- granulated sugar - 200 g;
- eggs - 4 pcs.;
- honey - 100 g;
- boiling water (or hot tea brewing) - 3 tbsp. l.;
- chopped walnuts - 100 g;
- baking powder - 1 tsp.
Beat the eggs and sugar until fluffy for 5-7 minutes. Heat the honey until it becomes runny, and pour it into the egg mixture, while continuing to beat the mixture with a mixer.
Then turn off the mixer and add flour to the bowl, stirring the mixture with a spatula. Pour boiling water next. Add chopped nuts to the dough if desired. Mix everything and bake at 180 ° C for 40 minutes.
How to cook a sponge cake on boiling water in a slow cooker
Thanks to the correctly selected temperature regime in the multicooker, the biscuit is evenly baked, with a beautiful golden brown crust. In addition, the dough does not rise under the lid, so the cake layers are smooth.
You will need:
- eggs - 4 pcs.;
- flour - 1 tbsp.;
- boiling water - 4 tbsp. l.;
- granulated sugar - 1 tbsp.;
- baking powder - 1 tsp;
- vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. l.;
- vanilla sugar to taste.
Beat the eggs in a thick foam, add plain and vanilla sugar. Gradually, stirring, add flour to the mixture, add baking powder.
Pour oil and boiling water into the mass that is almost ready for baking. Spread everything out quickly with a wooden spatula.
Pour the dough into the multicooker bowl, turn on the "Bake" mode and close the lid. The biscuit will be ready in an hour.
