Simple oil sponge cake

Name: Simple oil sponge cake
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 30 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Ugandan
Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour; 1 cup sugar; 2 tsp baking powder; 3 eggs; ½ cup MAMI Sunflower Oil, plus a little for the tin; ¾ cup milk; 1 tsp vanilla essence

A soft, moist everyday cake made with oil instead of butter. Easy and affordable.

Prep: 15 min
Cook: 30 min
Serves: 8

Made withMAMI Sunflower Oil

Ingredients

Method

Heat the oven to 180 °C and oil a 20 cm cake tin.
Whisk the eggs and sugar until pale and thick, then whisk in the oil, milk and vanilla.
Fold in the flour and baking powder until just combined.
Pour into the tin and bake for about 30 minutes, until a skewer comes out clean.
Cool for 10 minutes before turning out.

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