Spiced tea and orange sponge cake

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Here's a pretty unassuming cake, it looks like your average sponge cake. However! Behind its plain exterior it packs a lot of flavor and a fluffy light texture (and I do mean very fluffy and light; if you ever wondered what eating a cloud feels like, this is it). This recipe takes about an hour give or take, depending on how comfortable you are making it.

Ingredients:

3 egg yolks

3 egg whites

1/2 tsp to 1 tsp of spiced/chai tea powder, according to taste (just break open a teabag and measure out the quantities)

2 oranges

85g sugar (3 oz)

40 ml sunflower oil

75g cake flour

11g baking powder

Instructions:

1: Preheat oven to 170 ºC. Separate the yolks from the whites into two separate medium-large bowls.

2: Zest the oranges. Then squeeze around 60ml of juice from them (usually I get enough with just half an orange)

3: In the bowl with the yolks add about a third of the sugar and whisk well.

4: Add the sunflower oil, tea, orange juice and zest, and mix well.

5: Sift the flour and baking powder into the mixture and whisk till smooth.

6: Whip the egg whites till opaque. Add the rest of the sugar in intervals and whip till you can form stiff peaks.

7: Incorporate the egg whites to the mixture. Mix well.

8: Pour into a cake pan, use either a silicon one or line your pan with oven paper.

9: Bake at 170 ºC for 30-35 minutes (or until done)

10: When done, take out and flip the cake pan onto a slightly raised cooling rack.

11: Once fully cooled, free your creation from the cake pan and enjoy! You can dust it with sugar if you want a little extra sweetness but that's up to you.