100 sponge recipes

Bien Me Sabe! Layers of brandy-soaked ladyfingers, lush coconut cream filling, and golden meringue make this classic Venezuelan dessert impossible to resist. Chills overnight for the easiest showstopper.

Coconut treacle pani hoppers, sweet Sri Lankan hoppers from a fermented rice-flour and coconut milk batter enriched with coconut treacle, cooked soft and spongy, then folded into a crescent. A treacly teatime treat.

Rasgulla, the classic Bengali cheese ball dessert of spongy homemade chenna simmered in light sugar syrup until pillowy and sweet. Four ingredients, big payoff.

Injera made from millet flour and club soda with a quick 90-minute ferment instead of days-long teff fermentation. Spongy, tangy Ethiopian flatbread cooked covered in a skillet for about one minute per round.