All-In-One Sponge Cake
"No creaming or folding, this is a simple, quick and easy stand-by sponge. Choose your own filling, fruit, cream, lemon curd or jam. For a variation add some vanilla essence, lemon or orange zest to the ingredients. Requires 2 round 8 inch sandwich baking tins, greased and lined with baking paper. I sometimes need to cut a thin slice from the top of of one of the sponges to level them before I sandwich them together."
photo by Jennie
- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 5
- Serves:
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6-8
ingredients
- 3⁄4 cup butter or 3/4 cup margarine, needs to be soft
- 1 cup caster sugar or 1 cup fine sugar
- 3 eggs, beaten
- 1 1⁄2 cups sifted self-raising flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
directions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (325F if you know your oven is really hot).
- Measure out all the ingredients, put in to a large bowl and beat until well blended (I use an electric mixer but you can do this by hand).
- Divide this between the two tins; level out and bake in the oven for approx 30-35 minutes, until well risen and the top of the sponges spring back when lightly pressed with your finger.
- Leave them to cool for 5 minutes in the tin before you turn them out; remove the paper and let them completely cool on a cake rack.
- When cold, sandwich them together with your favorite filling.
- Sprinkle caster or powdered sugar on the top.
Questions & Replies
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What can you substitute "self-raising" flour with? Thanks!
Reviews
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very easy excellent cake- and it looks so appetizing too.i made it with a lemon curd filling, i'll be making this again. -
I'm going to be trying this again:) -
For people who prefer to weigh the ingredients: 6 oz butter 6 oz sugar 6 oz self raising flour This must be baked in two seperate tins as stated! -
Great recipe! So easy. I never made a sponge cake before. I added some lemon zest to the batter and filled it with Mean Chef's lemon curd. Some whipped cream on top and everyone loved it.
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This was a really east cake to bake and brilliant to do with my three year old. The reason I have marked it down was because it tasted so bland. It really needs a good slug of vanilla to give it a boost. thanks for posting though as I will adapt it.
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Tweaks
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Added Vanilla and reduced cooking time
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
PetsRus
Leiden, Zuid Holland
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