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Helen Goh’s springtime spinach sponge cake with cream cheese icing – recipe

Bright green, tangy and tender, this cake is a delicious way to sing in the spring

Helen Goh’s springtime spinach sponge cake with cream cheese icing – recipe

TL;DR

  • The cake gets its vibrant green color and tender texture from spinach.
  • Ingredients for the cake include spinach, milk, flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, salt, eggs, caster sugar, lime zest, coconut oil, and vanilla extract.
  • The cream cheese icing requires cream cheese, icing sugar, lime zest, lime juice, and double cream.
  • The preparation involves pureeing spinach, mixing wet and dry ingredients separately, then combining them.
  • The cake is baked in a shallow tin and cooled completely before icing.
  • The icing is made by beating cream cheese with icing sugar and lime, then adding lime juice and double cream.