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Flourless Sponge Cake

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  • Serves: 12
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Ingredients

  1. 1 cup vanilla sugar
  2. 3/4 cup matzo cake meal
  3. 1 tablespoon freshly grated lemon zest
  4. 12 large egg whites, at room temperature
  5. 1/2 teaspoon salt
  6. 1 teaspoon lemon juice

Nutrition Info

Per Serving

  • Calories: 100 kcal
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  • Carbohydrates: 21 g
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  • Dietary Fiber: 0 g
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  • Fat: 0 g
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  • Protein: 4 g
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  • Sugars: 0 g

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Cooking Directions

  1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
  2. Whisk 1/4 cup vanilla sugar, matzo cake meal and lemon zest in a medium bowl.
  3. Beat egg whites, salt and lemon juice in a large bowl with an electric mixer on medium speed until frothy. Increase speed to high and beat until soft peaks form. Add remaining 3/4 cup vanilla sugar 1 Tbsp. at a time, beating until glossy and stiff peaks form.
  4. Fold dry ingredients into beaten whites with a rubber spatula. Scrape batter into an ungreased 10-inch angel food cake pan. Run a spatula in a circle through batter to release air bubbles; smooth the top.
  5. Bake cake for 40 to 50 minutes, or until top springs back when touched lightly and a skewer inserted in the center comes out clean. (The top of the cake will be cracked.) Invert the cake to cool completely. (If the pan has no legs, invert it over the neck of a glass bottle.)
  6. With a knife, loosen edges of cake and invert onto a serving platter.

Yield: 12 servings

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A perfect ending to a Passover seder.

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Tips

To make vanilla sugar, split 1 vanilla bean lengthwise with the tip of a sharp knife. Cut into 2-inch pieces and grind in a blender with 1 cup sugar. Pass sugar through a fine sieve. (The sugar will keep indefinitely in a tightly covered container at room temperature.)

To warm egg whites to room temperature, place them in a bowl over hot water. Whisk for a few minutes until they feel slightly warm to the touch.

Dried egg whites, such as Just Whites, reconstituted, can be substituted for fresh egg whites.

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  • One slight problem

    Jessica - April 11, 2007 10:28:41 PM PST
    Ahhhhhh. Mazto meal sponge cake! It brings back memories of when my grandmother used to make this every year for passover.

    There's one slight problem with the "Flourless Sponge Cake" recipe though. Which is that it's made almost entirely from flour. Matzo meal is simply finely crushed matzo. And as everyone knows, matzo's primary indgredient is... flour.

    Oh, and since all the necessary ingredients are added to the cake to make it rise, it's now a leavened, flour-based cake. Which, is not exactly koser for Passover.

    It's tasty though.

    9 of 10 found this review helpful.

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  • Matzo is made from flour

    Jeff M - April 12, 2007 07:46:08 AM PST
    Matzo is made from flour, so this can't be a flourless recipe.

    6 of 6 found this review helpful.

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  • Quick question.

    SummerlinSue - August 27, 2007 01:45:32 PM PST
    How could this recipe have zero grams of sugar when it definitely calls for one cup of sugar? Can't wait to try it, though.

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  • a passover cake by any other name

    jazzbunny1 - April 16, 2007 12:36:34 PM PST
    my guess is the intent of this recipe is to be used for passover, so calling it a "passover sponge cake" would solve the flour issue that some of you have. as for it not being kosher for passover, this cake most certainly is. as long as there is no leavening agent such as yeast, bakaing powder or baking soda, it's fine. most passover cake recipes use beaten egg whites in them to create a bit of "lift" as other raising agents are not allowed.

    i have a question regarding the vanilla suger. here in germany where i live, there is a product called "vanilla sugar," it's granulated sugar with vanilla flavor which is used in baking. i'd be curious to know whether this would be a good substitute, as the idea of putting the sugar through a sieve and all that ....

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  • A spongeless flour cake.

    unclethysbes - April 13, 2007 12:30:08 AM PST
    That would certainly be a more honest recipe wouldn't it? Matzo is made from flour. Now, get to work on my spongeless flour cake, you've got a reputation to rebuild.

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