Recipe: Appetizing Greek Sponge Cake

Greek Sponge Cake.

You can cook Greek Sponge Cake using 11 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Greek Sponge Cake

1. You need 5 of Eggs.
2. You need 200 ml of Olive Oil.
3. It's 1 of Lemon Zest.
4. You need 225 grams of Greek Yogurt.
5. It's 225 grams of Caster Sugar.
6. It's 200 grams of Semolina.
7. It's 150 grams of Plain Flour.
8. Prepare 75 grams of Ground Almonds.
9. You need 1 tsp of Baking Powder.
10. It's 1 of Juice of Lemon.
11. It's 50 ml of Honey.

Greek Sponge Cake step by step

1. Pre heat oven @ gas mark 5 or 180c. Put the lemon (now zested) and the honey to one side to make the syrup topping later..
2. Mix all the other ingredients together in a large bowl until smooth & creamy..
3. Add to a medium ceramic or glass baking dish (around 20 by 30 cm), rather than a cake tin..
4. Place in the oven for 30-35 minutes until to top have risen slightly in the centre and the colour is light golden brown..
5. Leave to cool for an hour..
6. With a sharp knife, poke lots of hole in the top of the cake, ready to add the lemon and honey..
7. Add the lemon juice and honey in a small pan and heat until the honey has melted with the lemon into a warm liquid. Take a tea spoon and add this to the cake top to give a glaze which will seep into the sponge..
8. Leave for another hour before eating so that the syrup can seep into the sponge..