How to cook sponge cake.

Ingredients; Sponge:

• 225g Butter


• 225g Sugar


• 225g Flour


• 3 Teaspoons Baking Powder


• 3 Teaspoons Vanilla Flavoring


• 4 Medium Eggs

Butter Icing;

• 100g Soft Butter


• 200g Icing Sugar

To make Cake;

1. Pre Heat Oven on Gas mark 3.


2. First mix the butter and sugar together once done add half of the flour through a sieve.


3. Then crack in two eggs and mix with electric mixer.


4. Now add in the rest of the Flour and the remaining Eggs. At this point you should also add in the Vanilla Flavouring. Again Mix this with the electric mixer.


5. Line a tin with either foil or grease it. Add in the mixture ready to bake and move the mixture to the edge of the tin with a spatula.


6. Put the tin around the middle of the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes. When cooked turn out of pan on to cooling rack or wire.


7. Cut the cake in half and put Jam on one half and Butter Cream to the other half. Put the halves back together and cream the outside edge and then jam the top. Apply Icing and the decorate to own style and for own occasion.

To make Butter Icing;

1. Mix the butter by hand with either a whisk or spatula. Then sieve in the icing sugar.


2. Keep mixing with whisk and add icing sugar to make to own taste.