Sponge cake Sponge cake Sponge cake is a cake based on flour (usually wheat flour), sugar, butter and eggs, and is sometimes leavened with baking powder. It has a firm yet well-aerated structure, similar to a sea sponge. In the United Kingdom a sponge cake is produced using the batter method, while in the US cakes made using the batter method are known as butter or pound cakes. Two common British batter-method sponge cakes are the layered Victoria sponge cake and Madeira cake. The Victorian creation of baking powder by English food manufacturer Alfred Bird in 1843 enabled the sponge to rise
Gooey butter cake to its popularization by celebrity chef Paula Deen. There has been some controversy from the Loyet family in St. Louis, Missouri that gooey butter cake originally was created in the popular Loyet Bakery. Despite these viral claims on social media, some family members believe that the Loyet Bakery never even existed. Many St. Louis area grocery stores sell fresh or boxed gooey butter cakes. Haas baking sold a widely distributed, square and packaged version in a box that depicts a colorful, if anachronistic scene of aviator Charles Lindbergh's plane the Spirit of St. Louis flying past downtown St. Louis, the