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SUMMER FêTE STRAWBERRY SPONGE
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SUMMER FêTE STRAWBERRY SPONGE
Ingredients:
- 4 eggs
- 225g caster sugar
- 225g soft butter
- 225g self raising flour
- Good quality strawberry jam
- 240ml double cream
- Stawberries
- Icing sugar
Method:
- Cream together the butter and sugar until pale using an electric whisk or by hand
- Beat in the eggs, one at a time
- Sieve the flour and gently fold into the mixture
- Grease and line the base of two 20cm/8 inch cake tins.
- Divide the mixture between the two tins and bake at 180 Degrees / Thermastone medium oven for 20-25 minutes or until lightly golden and the sponge springs back to the touch
- Allow the cakes to cool in the tins for 5 minutes then turn out onto cooling racks
- Whip up the double cream until firm and halve the strawberries.
- Spread each sponge with the jam, top one of them with cream and stawberries and place the second sponge on top.
- Dust with icing sugar and serve.
