Sponge Cake

Claire has been feeling poorly the last couple of days so I baked a cake to cheer her up! I used a basic sponge cake recipe for this so all you need is 175g of self raising flour, 175g of caster sugar, 175g of softened butter, 3 large eggs and a teaspoon of baking powder. Sift the flour and baking powder into a bowl then add all the other ingredients and mix together. Pour mixture into cake tins and put into pre-heated oven of 170 degrees centigrade until golden brown and springy on top. Remove from oven and leave to cool. It's entirely up to you what filling you want, or whether you want to put icing on it. I chose to fill mine with jam and butter cream. I did the butter cream whilst it was cooling. Pretty simple to do this: 175g of icing sugar, 75g of butter and a couple of drops of milk. Mix all together and Bob's your mother's brother! The butter cream was spread on one half of the cake and the jam spread on the other side. It was then sandwiched together and dusted with icing sugar.

I was rocking out to Lamb Of God while making this... wooooooaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrhhhh indeed!