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Triple Berry Hot Milk Sponge Cake Serves: 9 / Prep time: 20 minutes / Total time: 1 hour Vegetable oil cooking spray 2 large eggs ¾ cup sugar ½ cup white whole-wheat flour ½ cup all-purpose flour ...

Sometimes the best desserts are the simple ones — like a moist sponge cake with sweet, seasonal berries. Hot milk cake is a Depression-era dessert that was popular in the South and New England.

A Depression-era favorite known as hot milk cake, it calls for minimal butter and only two eggs, which, with egg prices the way they are, feels very 2025.

Q: My mother has been looking for a recipe that her mom used to make. It’s called Hot Milk Cake. She said that her mom probably started making it around the 1940s when she lived in Virginia.

Hot milk sponge cake recipes often call for cake flour. In an effort to add more whole grains to the diet, we used a combination of all-purpose flour and whole-wheat flour in today’s cake.

Press Photo/Katy BatdorffHot milk sponge cake Download this recipe for a 3-by-5-inch card (PDF) INGREDIENTS • 2 cups all-purpose flour • 2 teaspoons baking powder • 1 teaspoon table salt ...

My mother developed this cake with a friend almost 40 years ago, and despite my best efforts and cleverest tricks, I couldn't improve upon it... . The original recipe calls for maple flavoring ...