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Hot milk sponge cake

 



Preparation Time: 10 Minutes

Cook Time: 25 - 30 minutes

Serves: Make 1 two-layer cake

Hot milk sponge cake

Ingredients

300ml (250 g) castor sugar

500ml (280 g) Snowflake cake flour

15ml baking powder

1ml salt

250ml milk

100g butter or margarine

5ml vanilla essence

1  quantity butter icing

4  extra-large eggs

Method

  • Beat eggs and sugar together until light and creamy.
  • Sift flour, baking powder and salt together. Add to egg mixture and fold in lightly until well combined.
  • Heat milk and butter in a small, heavy-based saucepan. Do not boil; stir until butter is melted. Remove from heat and add essence.
  • Add milk mixture to cake mixture and mix well. Spoon mixture into two greased 20 c round cake pans.
  • Bake in a preheated oven at 180 °C for 25 - 30 minutes. Leave in pans for a few minutes before turning out onto a wire rack to cool completely.
  • Sandwich cake layers with half the icing. Use remaining icing to ice top of cake.



Simple Effective and Tasty

For a beginner it came out perfect

Have always loved this recipe

I have been making this cake for years and it always comes out perfectly.

Have always loved this recipe

I have been making this cake for years and it always comes out perfectly.