Sponge Cake
| Serves: | 6 |
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| Preparation time: | 30 minutes |
Ingredients
Cake :
- 4 eggs
- 300g sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 200g flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- ½ teaspoon. salt
- 250 ml JUST MILK
- 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
Filling :
- 120 g softened butter (for the butter cream)
- 300 g icing sugar (for the butter cream)
- Jam of your choice
Method
Cake:
- Preheat oven to 180°C. Grease and flour the bottom only of 2 20cm dia cake tins.
- In a large bowl, beat eggs until appearance is thick and lemony. Beat in sugar and vanilla.
- In a medium bowl, Sift together the flour, Baking powder and salt. Gradually Stir flour mixture into egg mixture.
- In a saucepan, bring the JUST MILK and butter to a Boil. Remove from heat and add all the hot milk mixture to batter mixture. Stir until well combined.
- Pour mixture into prepared cake tins, using a spatula to get remaining batter out of bowl, and to spread batter evenly.
- Bake for 30-35 minutes or until a toothpick inserted into the centre comes out clean
Filling:
- Cream the butter in a bowl using the back of a wooden spoon. Keep stirring until it's of a creamy consistency. Add 280g of the icing sugar a spoonful at a time, continuing to cream the butter between each spoonful, until all the sugar has been thoroughly mixed in.
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