27 sponge cake recipes

Passover apple cake made with matzo meal and potato starch instead of flour. A fluffy, flourless sponge layered with grated cinnamon apples and lemon.

Sunshine cake is a tall, lemon-kissed cousin of angel food and sponge cake, leavened entirely by whipped egg whites and yolks with bright lemon zest and juice.

Chocolate angel food layer cake baked in heart-shape pans. Fat-free, cloud-light, cocoa-scented sponge made with egg whites and cake flour. No butter, no yolks.

Halloween chocolate blood cake with red-dyed white chocolate sponge, strawberry ice cream center, and a creepy dripping red icing topped with vampire teeth candies. Spooky party showstopper.

Pouding renversé des bluets is a Québécois upside-down blueberry cake: fresh blueberries and lemon zest under a tender vanilla sponge, inverted to serve.

Light upside-down cake with canned apricot halves on the bottom, topped with a sponge-like batter made from separated eggs and bread crumbs.

Caramel-orange Bûche de Noël assembly with Grand Marnier buttercream, almond sponge, and pastry cream filling. The classic French Yule log cake for Christmas.

Mimosa cake is a marbled angel food cake with lemon butter cream frosting. White meringue batter and golden egg yolk batter are spooned alternately into a tube pan for a two-toned, cloud-light sponge.

Classic Boston cream pie with a tender cake flour sponge, vanilla custard cream filling, and chocolate glaze. A from-scratch version of the iconic layered dessert.

Feather light angel food cake, a fat-free sponge built on whipped egg whites and cream of tartar, baked tall and cloud-soft, then swathed in a glossy boiled-syrup meringue frosting. Airy, snowy, and pure.

Buttermilk lemon pudding cake separates as it bakes into two layers: an airy sponge on top and a tangy lemon custard pooled underneath. Tart, light, and self-saucing, baked in individual ramekins in a water bath.