sponge cake

See also: spongecake

English

sponge cake (countable and uncountable, plural sponge cakes)

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

Hyponyms: Victoria sponge, genoise

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

Albanian: pandispanjë f
Arabic: كَعْكَة إسْفَنْجِيَّة‎ f (kaʿka(t) ʾisfanjiyya)
Armenian: բիսկվիթ (biskvitʿ)
Basque: bizkotxo
Belarusian: біскві́т m (biskvít)
Catalan: pa de pessic 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
Estonian: keeks (et)
Finnish: sokerikakku
French: sponge cake (fr) m, génoise (fr) f
Galician: biscoito m, bolo esponxoso m
German: Biskuit (de) n, Biskuitkuchen 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

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