Amy's large sponge cake .
- 3 eggs
- 1/2 cup caster sugar .
- 3/4 cup selfraising flour .
- 1/4 cup cornflour .
- 15 grams butter .
- 3 tbsp hot water .
- 1 tsp vanilla essence .
- 2 punets strawberries .
- 300 ml cream - thickened .
- 1 cadbury flake .
- Preheat oven to 180'C grease and line two small cake tins or one larger cake tin to make one large sponge cake and set aside .
- Beat eggs until thick and creamy , add sugar , and continue beating until sugar is dissolved .
- now fold in sifted flours gently to combine .
- then combine the butter , water and vanilla essence mix and add to cake dough mix and combine .
- pour batter into the prepared cake tins and cook for 30-35 minutes or for the larger cake 40-45 minutes or until golden brown and cake springs back to touch , leave in cake tins to cool for about 5 minutes the place on a cooling rack to cool completely .
- whip cream until thick adding a little sugar and mix well but do not over mix or cream will curdle .
- wash and take out centres of the strawberries and halve .
- on one of the sponge cakes spread whipped cream all over to cover .
- now take the strawberry halves and place them all round on top of the cream , place top sponge cake on top and dust generously with icing sugar .
- serve and enjoy .
- :-) .
- for the one large sponge cake I piped whipped cream all over top and placed strawberry circles on top of the cream them sprinkled crushed flake all over top for a chocolate effect .
- serve and enjoy .
- :-) .
eggs, caster sugar, flour, cornflour , butter, water, vanilla, punets strawberries, cadbury
Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/333817-amys-large-sponge-cake (may not work)