sponge cake

See also: spongecake

English

Alternative forms

• spongecake

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Noun

sponge cake (countable and uncountable, plural sponge cakes)

1. A light, soft, baked dessert (commonly layered with cream and jam) that is typically made with flour, sugar, baking powder and eggs, and has a firm, yet well aerated structure, similar to that of a sea sponge.

   Hyponyms: Victoria sponge, genoise

   I made a sponge cake the other day. It was a disaster: I forgot the baking powder! It didn't rise!

2. (informal, figurative, uncommon) Something that is simple or very easy.

Related terms

• chiffon cake
• genoise
• pound cake

Translations

type of soft cake made from flour, sugar, baking powder and eggs, with a spongy structure

• Albanian: pandispanjë f
• Arabic: كَعْكَة إسْفَنْجِيَّة f (kaʕka(t) ʔisfanjiyya)
• Armenian: բիսկվիթ (biskvitʻ)
• Asturian: bizcuechu m, bizcochu m
• Basque: bizkotxo
• Belarusian: біскві́т m (biskvít)
• Bulgarian: пандишпа́н (bg) m (pandišpán)
• Catalan: pa de pessic (ca) m, bescuit (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 海綿蛋糕／海绵蛋糕 (hoi² min⁴ daan⁶ gou¹)

  Mandarin: 海綿蛋糕／海绵蛋糕 (hǎimián dàngāo)

• Dutch: biscuitgebak n
• Esperanto: spongkuko, spongokuko
• Estonian: keeks (et)
• Finnish: sokerikakku
• French: sponge cake (fr) m, génoise (fr) f
• Galician: biscoito (gl) m, bolo esponxoso m, bica (gl) f
• German: Biskuit (de) n, Biskuitkuchen (de) m, Biskuitmasse f
• Greek: παντεσπάνι (el) n (pantespáni)
• Hebrew: עוּגַת סְפוֹג (he) f (ugát s'fog)
• Hungarian: piskóta (hu)
• Icelandic: svampterta f
• Indonesian: kue sponge
• Irish: císte spúinse m
• Italian: pandispagna m, pan di Spagna m
• Japanese: スポンジケーキ (suponji kēki), スポンジ生地 (スポンジきじ, suponji kiji)
• Kazakh: бисквит (biskvit)
• Korean: 스펀지 케이크 (seupeonji keikeu)
• Lithuanian: biskvitas m
• Macedonian: пандишпа́н m (pandišpán)
• Malagasy: ^{(please verify)} mandrehitra (mg)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sukkerbrød n

  Nynorsk: sukkerbrød n

• Persian: کیک اسفنجی (fa) (keyk-e esfanji)
• Polish: biszkopt (pl) m, ciasto biszkoptowe n, biskwit (pl) m
• Portuguese: pão de ló m, pão-de-ló (pt) m, bolo esponjoso m
• Romanian: chec (ro) n, pandișpan (ro) n
• Russian: бискви́т (ru) m (biskvít)
• Spanish: bizcocho (es) m
• Swedish: sockerkaka (sv) c
• Thai: เค้กฟองน้ำ (kéek fɔɔng-nám), สปันจ์เค้ก (sà-bpan kéek), สาลี่ (th) (sǎa-lîi) (Thai-specific)
• Turkish: pandispanya (tr), sünger kek
• Ukrainian: біскві́т (uk) m (biskvít), біскві́тне ті́сто n (biskvítne tísto)
• Uzbek: biskvit (uz)
• Vietnamese: bánh bông lan
• Welsh: teisen sbwnj f, teisen felen f
• Yiddish: לעקעך m (lekekh), צוקער־לעקעך m (tsuker-lekekh)