Universal Birthday Sponge
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Ingredients
- 5 oz Self raising flour (sieved)
- 6oz Butter
- 2 Eggs (large)
- 1 tsp (heaped) Baking Powder or Bicarbonate of Soda
- 2 tbsp milk
- 4oz Caster sugar
Accompaniment
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Description
My great grandmother has passed this down the family as the quick and simple birthday cake sponge! this gets rolled out in our family in multiple brightly decorated forms.
Method
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cream together the sugar and the softened butter for 2 mins. beat in the two eggs for a further 2 mins. fold in the flour and bicarb and stir in milk. share between 2 round sandwich tins. cook for approx. 15mins at 175C. (optional flavour with coco ) also may require more milk.
once cooled fill with jam or butter icing
Chef's Tips
We like to cover it in butter icing and sweets.
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