Poppi's Spongecake

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District nonmigratory Susan Barocas has made this family-favorite holiday-birthday barroom since she was 8 oregon 9. She has tweaked the archetypal recipe, utilizing much citrus and little sweetener successful her version, which is suitable for Passover arsenic well.

Barocas has discovered that spongecake fits successful with her Sephardic heritage. Known arsenic cookware d'Espagne (bread of Spain), it was a favourite of Iberian Jews agelong earlier the Inquisition, which was erstwhile her father’s ancestors fled Spain to find a harmless haven successful the Ottoman Empire. Their descendants arrived astatine Ellis Island much than 4 centuries later.

You'll request a 10-inch conduit cookware with a removable bottom.

Serve with whipped pick and caller berries oregon effect compote.

The barroom tin beryllium baked and kept covered astatine country somesthesia for a fewer days. To frost it, refrigerate until good chilled, past wrapper good successful a furniture of integrative wrap, past successful aluminum foil. Once the barroom has defrosted, refresh it successful a 300-degree oven for nary much than 10 minutes.

From Susan Barocas, manager of the Jewish Food Experience.

Ingredients

measuring cup

Servings: 12

  • 9 ample eggs, separated into whites and yolks
  • 1 1/4 cups sugar
  • 1 tablespoonful finely grated orangish zest (no pith) positive 2 tablespoons caller orangish juice
  • 1 tablespoonful finely grated citrus zest (no pith) positive 2 tablespoons caller citrus juice
  • 3/4 cupful matzoh barroom meal
  • 1/4 cupful murphy starch
  • Pinch kosher salt

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

  • Calories

    190

  • Fat

    4 g

  • Saturated Fat

    1 g

  • Carbohydrates

    33 g

  • Sodium

    75 mg

  • Cholesterol

    160 mg

  • Protein

    6 g

  • Sugar

    22 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Susan Barocas, manager of the Jewish Food Experience.

Tested by Jim Webster.

Published August 27, 2013

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Updated March 14, 2026

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