If you, as a home chef, have ever tried to make a sponge cake, you know the misery that comes when the batter splits. But Deeksha Shetty of patisserie Cocoa Maya says it's possible to make a perfect batter that will lead to you baking the lightest cake ever. You just need to master the technique
of frothing.

"Sponge batter often tends to split. It depends on things like even slight temperature difference, or if you have mixed it too much. The batter then doesn't aerate as much," says Shetty. And that's why she says her technique will help. "What you need to do is basically beat an egg in a separate vessel and as it froths, add the froth to the batter," explains Shetty. As long as you keep mixing the batter, keep beating the eggs to add the froth to it. This keeps the batter intact and helps aerate it. Usually, a batter's consistency is tested like this: Make a figure eight using the batter that drip off the beater.