Helen Goh’s springtime spinach sponge cake with cream cheese icing – recipe | The sweet spot

Bright green, tangy and tender, this cake is a delicious way to sing in the spring There is a particular green that belongs to spring: pale and luminous, it’s softer than the dark foliage of winter, and quieter than the glossy abundance of summer herbs. Spinach, the colour of new growth, captures this moment perfectly. Tender and almost impossibly vivid, this cake loses its metallic edge in the heat of the oven, leaving a gentle, vegetal brightness. Baked in a shallow tin and spread with crea...

By Helen Goh