Seltzer cake – recipe

With this recipe, the delicious seltzer cake is just like grandma’s. As the name suggests, Selters makes the sponge cake particularly juicy.

ingredients For 12th Servings

First cover a baking sheet with parchment paper and preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
Put the eggs, sugar and oil in a mixing bowl and beat well until frothy.
Sieve the flour with the baking powder and stir into the mixture. Then mix in the salt and lemon peel and finally stir in the seltzer water (= sparkling mineral water).
Now spread the dough on the prepared baking tray and bake the cake in the preheated oven for about 20 minutes until light brown.

The cooled down Seltzer cake Dust with powdered sugar or cover with chocolate icing or icing.

The juicy seltzer cake comes from the former GDR and was a must at any birthday party back then.