Prep time: 20 mins
Cook time: 20 mins
Effort: minimal
Makes: 1 cake
Ingredients:
6oz self raising flour
6 oz caster sugar
6 oz margarine
3 eggs
Jam
Icing sugar
Method:
1.
Preheat oven to 180C / 356F / GM4.
2.
Line two 7" round, shallow
cake tins with baking paper.
3.
Put flour, sugar, margarine and eggs
into a mixer and beat until just mixed together - don't overbeat! The
mixture should be creamy looking and there should be few lumps of flour. Once
it reaches this stage do not beat any further or the air which helps it rise
will be lost.
4.
Tip into the tins and bake for 20 minutes
until lightly golden brown, you can put a skewer in it and it comes out clean,
you can touch the top and it springs back or the edges start to shrink away
from the sides.
5.
Cool on a wire rack
6.
Place one cake on a plate. Spread jam
over.
7.
Place the other cake layer on top of the
jam and sprinkle with icing sugar using a sieve.
Note: If you have no
mixer use the following method:
1.
Preheat oven to 180C / 356F / GM4.
2.
Line two 7" round, shallow cake tins
with baking paper.
3.
Put margarine and sugar into a bowl. Beat
with a wooden spoon until thoroughly mixed together.
4.
Break in the eggs and mix again,
incorporating as much air as possible.
5.
Sift in the flour then fold it in until it
is fully mixed in. The mixture should be creamy looking and there should be no
lumps of flour. Once it reaches this stage do not beat any further or the air
which helps it rise will be lost.
6.
Tip into the tins and bake for 20 minutes
until lightly golden brown, you can put a skewer in it and it comes out clean,
you can touch the top and it springs back or the edges start to shrink away
from the sides.
7.
Cool on a wire rack
8.
Place one cake on a plate. Spread jam
over.
9.
Place the other cake layer on top of the
jam and sprinkle with icing sugar using a sieve.
Twists:
Chocolate cake:
Remove 1oz of flour and
replace with 1oz of cocoa. If you are sifting your flour, sift the cocoa too.
Lemon or Orange cake:
Grate the rind of 1
lemon or 1 orange. Add it to the mixture with the other ingredients if using a
mixer. If beating the mixture by hand, add to mixture at the same time as the
flour but not sifted.
Vanilla Cake:
Add a teaspoon of
vanilla essence to the mixture.
Springier sponge:
For even springier
sponge replace a third of the margarine with the same quantity of olive oil
spread.
