Home Food & Recipes

Strawberry and cream sponge cake

So fluffy and soft.
8
15M
30M
45M

This classic sponge recipe goes perfectly with a cup of tea. The best sponge cake recipe is layered with cream and strawberries before serving with a dusting of icing sugar. It will surely impress your guests.

Ingredients

Method

1.

Preheat oven to 185°C and line a 22cm round springform cake tin with baking paper.

2.

Put eggs in the bowl of an electric mixer and whisk for 3 minutes or until foamy. With motor running, steadily sprinkle in sugar and add vanilla seeds. Continue whisking until mixture is thick and foamy.

3.

Gently fold in butter and flour with a large metal spoon. Pour mixture into prepared tin.

4.

Bake for 30 minutes or until cooked when tested with a skewer. Cool in tin for 5 minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

5.

Using a large serrated knife, cut cake in half horizontally. Spread jam on bottom half of cake. Top with strawberries, then a layer of whipped cream. Smooth surface, then gently sandwich with top half of cake and serve dusted with icing sugar.

You may also like

Carrot cake

Upside-down pineapple and cherry cake

Lamington sponge finger biscuits 

Related stories