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How to bake a simple sponge cake?

Baking a sponge cake is the simplest mixture of all kinds of cakes. All it requires is a few ingredients. A sponge cake mainly consists of one or two layers depending on the chef (can go higher). The layers can be decorated by adding jam, toffee, butter cream and etc. For example if you are baking a two layer sponge cake you can put some jam in between the layers to add a bit of flavouring. Also you can make the sponge cake with different flavours such as lemon, strawberry, chocolate, vanilla, toffee and etc.

Here are the ingredients to bake a plain butter cream sponge cake:

3 eggs

Self raising flour

Margarine

Caster sugar

1 tsp baking powder

75g Butter (unsalted)

Icing sugar

Here are the methods to take to bake the sponge cake:

Step 1:

Measure 200g of sugar, margarine and flour

Step 2:

Pour the sugar and margarine into a mixing bowl

Step 3:

Beat the sugar and margarine until it becomes creamy

Step 4:

Break the eggs into the mixture of the margarine and sugar

Step 5:

Pour the flour into the bowl

Step 6:

Add 1 tsp of baking powder also you can add any flavour if you wish to have some

Step 7:

Mix the ingredients together until it becomes dropping consistency. In other words make sure that when you lift a spoonful of the mixture it does not run or stay, it needs to drop naturally. If the mixture stays just add a little milk to make the mixture drop naturally. Also if the mixture becomes too running just add more flour.