Basic sponge flan
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Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 15 - 20 minutes
Serves: Makes 2 medium flans
A simply decadent desert that will impress everyone.
Ingredients
125ml milk
60g butter or margarine
200ml (160 g) sugar
375ml (210 g) Snowflake cake flour
10ml Snowflake baking powder
1ml salt
2 extra-large eggs
Method
- Heat milk and butter in a small, heavy-based saucepan. Do not boil, stir until butter is melted. Remove from heat.
- Beat eggs and sugar together until light and creamy.
- Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Add, alternately with milk mixture, to egg mixture. Beat lightly until smooth.
- Spoon mixture into two lined and greased 24 cm flan pans. Bake in a preheated oven at 180 °C for 15 - 20 minutes.
- Leave in pans for a few minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
- Fill with ginger filling, gooseberry and orange filling or pineapple filling.
