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Fresh cream Strawberry sponge cake Recipe

Classic summery sponge cake recipe.

Vegetarian
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Ingredients

For the recipe:
  • 5 Medium free range eggs
  • 250g caster sugar
  • 100g Self raising flour
  • 1 Steenberg's vanilla pod
  • 25g melted butter
  • 1/2 pint double cream
  • 200g Fresh strawberries
  • 1/2 jar good quality or homemade strawberry jam
  • 1/4 teaspoon Steenberg's Vanilla extract
  • Organic Icing sugar to decorate

Fresh cream and strawberries in the summer are just meant to happen. The rich red colours from the fruit and the whipped cream filling turns a simple easy to make sponge into a glorious delicious cake for teatime or a celebration

Method

01
Crack the eggs into a mixing bowl and add 250g sugar
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Whisk the eggs and sugar together using a food mixer or hand held electric whisk
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Split the Vanilla Pod into two lengthways and scrape the seeds out with a knife and add the seeds to the egg/sugar mix
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Using a sieve, sprinkle the flour into the whisked egg mix a third at a time and then fold the flour into the mix slowly so that you don't knock the air out
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Add the butter, carefully distributing evenly through the cake mix
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Pour into a lined deep 8" tin
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Cook in the centre of the oven for 30-40 minutes (test if it's ready by inserting a skewer, it should come out clean)
08
Cool the cake in the tin
09
When cooled remove the greasproof lining from the sides and bottom & cut the cake equally in half using a long knife (Use a cake tin base to remove the top... this keeps it in one piece)
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Spread the jam on the bottom half
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Whip the cream till it's stiff, then spread the cream on top of the jam
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Top with sliced fresh strawberries
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Dot a little cream on a few of the strawberries and put cake top on
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Pipe or dollop cream on top and add a few strawberries to decorate
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Shake plenty of icing sugar over the top to make it look ever so pretty
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Slice the cake and tuck in
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Useful notes:
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If you would like to make the cake in two shallow tins the cooking time will be reduced to 15-20 minutes. This will save you cutting the cake in two halves
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Replace the Strawberries with raspberries and raspberry jam for an alternative cake filling