Sponge Cake

Serves 12

This cake can be eaten as is, made into a layer cake with chocolate frosting, used for a base for strawberry shortcake, made into a cake roll filled with whipped cream or jelly and covered with powdered sugar.

This cake was also the first and favorite cake made by Ima for great-grandson Kfir almost every week.

Ingredients:

6 eggs
1 1/2 cups sugar
1 1/2 cups flour
1 1/2 tsp. baking powder
1/2 cup orange and lemon juice mixed
1 tsp. grated orange peel

Preparation:

Separate eggs
Put whites into large mixer bowl and yellows into small mixer bowl.
Beat whites till stiff.
Beat yellows with sugar.
Add flour mixed with baking powder alternatley with the juice.
Add orange peel.
Mix by hand a few tablespoons of the whites into the yellow mixture.
Mix the yellow mixture into the white a few tablespoons at a time, very carefully till you get them all in, and the mixture is uniform.
Pour into an appropriate baking pan sprayed with oil spray. (bundt, layers, flat etc.)
Bake in a preheated oven till ready.