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Easy sponge cake recipe – simple cream cake

★★★★★ 4.8 · 60 ratings · by Vanessa Pur

Our best favorite and popular recipe for sponge cake and delicious cream cake recipe for a fluffy cake for fruit varieties. Cream cake recipe for peaches or strawberries with a delicious layer of cream and chocolate.

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Prep
15 min
Cook
5 min
Total
20 min
Servings
20 pieces
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by Vanessa Pur· Updated September 25, 2026
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Simple and easy sponge cake recipe as a quick and easy cake at any time of the year. Sponge cake with fruits, such as peaches and cream is one of the cake classics and is absolutely popular with young and old. Enjoy this yummy and beginner sponge cake recipe.

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A sponge cake is the foundation the rest of German baking is built on — Biskuit, the base under fruit tarts, cream cakes and rolled cakes. It contains no butter and no baking powder. All the lift comes from air beaten into eggs, which is why technique matters more here than in almost any other recipe.

Beat the eggs and sugar until the mixture falls off the whisk in a thick ribbon that holds its shape for a few seconds. Then fold the flour in by hand, gently, until it just disappears — every stir past that point knocks out the air you spent ten minutes building. A sponge that comes out flat is nearly always a folding problem, not an oven problem.

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Easy sponge cake recipe – simple cream cake

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Easy sponge cake recipe – simple cream cake
15 minPrep
5 minBake/Cook
20pieces
68kcal / serving
pieces  20

Ingredients

  • Sponge dough
  • 4 eggs
  • 125 g sugar
  • 8 g vanilla sugar
  • 125 g cake flour
  • 25 g cornstarch
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • Cake topping
  • 480 g peaches, canned
  • 600 ml whipped cream (fresh and ice-cold)
  • 24 g whipped cream stabilizer
  • 50 g chocolate chips (dark)

Instructions

  1. Beat eggs in a mixing bowl on high speed with the whisk attachment for 1 minute. Start 1 minute timer here
  2. Slow down the stand mixer and slowly sprinkle in the sugar and vanilla sugar (takes about 1 minute). Start 1 minute timer here
  3. Continue beating mixture on high speed for 2 minutes until foamy. Start 2 minutes timer here
  4. Sift flour, cornstarch, and baking powder into another bowl and let it slowly mix with the egg-sugar mixture, one tablespoon at a time, on low speed.
  5. Line a baking tray with baking paper and a baking frame to make an area of about 30x30cm or 30x40cm, in which you now spread the mixture.
  6. Place the dough in the oven preheated to 200 °C for 15 minutes and then let it cool immediately. Start 15 minutes timer here
  7. Now place an inverted cake plate or cutting board on the cooled sponge cake and turn the cake once to carefully peel off the baking paper.
  8. Drain peach halves and cut into small pieces.
  9. Whip cream with cream stiffener and whisk in stand mixer until it has a firm and creamy consistency.
  10. Now spread a thin layer of cream on the sponge cake base and evenly distribute the peach pieces on top.
  11. Spread the remaining cream thickly over the peaches and smooth or pattern the top.
  12. Now chill cake in refrigerator for about 2 hours and keep cold.
  13. Before serving, we always like to add dark chocolate pieces or chocolate shavings to the cake, which simply harmonizes deliciously with the cream.
Nutrition per serving
68kcal
1 gFat
13 gCarbs
1 gProtein
7 gSugar
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Step-by-step instructions for delicious chewy sponge cake recipe

Beat eggs in a mixing bowl on high speed with the whisk attachment for 1 minute. Slow down mixer and slowly sprinkle in sugar and vanilla sugar (takes about 1 minute). Continue beating mixture on high speed for 2 minutes until fluffy.

In another bowl, sift flour, cornstarch, and baking powder and slowly add to egg-sugar mixture by the tablespoonful on low speed. Line a baking tray with baking paper and a baking frame, creating an area of about 30x30cm or 30x40cm, into which you now spread the mixture.

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Place the dough in the oven preheated to 200 degrees (top/bottom heat) for 15 minutes and then let it cool down immediately.

Now place an inverted cake plate or cutting board on the cooled sponge cake and turn the cake over once to carefully remove the baking paper.

Instructions for delicious cream cake with peach

Drain peach halves and cut into small pieces. Then whip cream with cream stiffener and whisk in a food processor until it has a firm and creamy consistency. Then now put a thin layer of cream on the sponge cake base and spread the peach pieces evenly on top.

Then spread the remaining cream thickly on top of the peaches and smooth the top or make a pretty fork pattern. Now chill the pie in the refrigerator for about 2 hours to keep cold.

Before serving, we always like to add little dark chocolate pieces, chocolate shavings, chocolate letters or chocolate flakes on top of the cake, which is just delicious with the cream.

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You can also “bake” this sponge cream cake with other fruit, such as strawberries, berries or mango slices – there are no limits to your imagination, just make sure you have small pieces of fruit that fit well on the cake fork.

Fresh, chewy and fluffy sponge cake tastes best when homemade and with a baking time of only 15 minutes, it is an absolutely perfect cake even for impatient people and children who would like to help with baking. Otherwise, our simple waffle recipe is always suitable in such a case.

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We love cream cakes, but many cream cakes seem directly very heavy and not light – we have found for us the perfect cream cake with sponge cake base and would like to share and pass on the easy sponge cake recipe so that this sponge cake recipe can also become a favorite cake with you.

Best easy sponge cake recipe

The sponge cake recipe just always tastes good and is also always very well received by our guests. It is extremely fresh and light, which makes it an absolute favorite cake with us.

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The cake also looks cute when decorated with birthday candles or even individual preferences. For example, you can use hazelnut brittle, mini smarties or little cars as decorations.

We recommend adding the decorations to the cake just before serving. That way, the sugar won’t run and it won’t look soggy quickly.

If you are looking for an even simpler topping instead of fruit, you can simply add a layer of jam under the cream. We recommend our homemade strawberry jam for this sponge cake recipe.

If you prefer to bake a cake without cream, which is also super popular with guests and children, we gladly recommend our simple crumble cake with applesauce or our easy grid cake with applesauce.

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Vanessa Pur
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I have been baking and cooking for my family and community for years — honest recipes, all tested in my own kitchen and explained step by step so they turn out reliably for you too.

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