Easy to Make Throw Together Cake (Cakes)

Member Name: alocin

Product:	Cakes
Date:	15/04/03 (13489 review reads)
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Advantages: Very easy to make, Very yummy

Disadvantages: None

Ever since me and my sister were knee high to a short person we have wanted to help our mum make cakes. This recipie is for a really easy to make cake that even the smallest of small people can help with (or the unculinarily gifted can make). It is a light sponge cake that is delicious when iced with buttercream or jam and cream.

Equipment Needed

large mixing bowl
electric mixer (or wooden spoon + strong arm)
2 cake tins (8 inch or so)
measuring spoons
scales
skewer

Ingredients

6oz soft margarine
6oz castor sugar
6oz self raising flour
3 eggs
1.5 teaspoons baking powder
2 tablespoons cold water
0.5 teaspoons vanilla essence

Method

1. Throw all the ingredients together into the mixing bowl (see - nice and easy)
2. Mix together untill smooth texture with no lumps
3. Divide into the two cake tins
4. Place in a hot oven at around 180 degrees C for 25 minutes
5. Check they are cooked by inserting a skewer into the centre - if it comes out clean they are done
6. This easy cake can then be stuck together with jam and cream - yummy! Decorate as you wish, for example we have mini eggs at easter time - double yummy!

Variations

* Use only 5oz of flour and replace the vanilla with 1oz of cocoa powder for a chocolate cake
* Add cherries or mixed dried fruit
* Use a cake tray with paper cases to create around 24-30 mini cakes

This is a basic sponge cake but it is delicious. It can be heated up with custard as a desert or fancily decorated as a birthday cake - any way you make it is tastes great and is so easy to make!

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