Weekend Baking

Baking is a great for something to do when you've got a quiet weekend, and you've got the whole week to enjoy your creation!

I made this yummy Victoria Sponge cake last weekend. I decorated it with pink butter icing and hundreds and thousands to give an eye-catching finish.

Here's the recipe to make your own..

Ingredients for Sponge:
4oz Caster Sugar
4oz Self Raising Flour
4oz Margerine
2 eggs
1 level teaspoon of Baking Powder

1 - Put all ingredients into a mix bowl and beat with a wooden spoon until mixture is a smooth, creamy texture. Or put a food blender, which is alot easier.
2 - Distribute evenly between 2 round baking tins that are 6.5/7 inches wide.
3 - Cook for about 25mins at 160oC. Sponge should be a golden brown.
4 - Leave to cool in tins for 5mins, run a kinfe round the edges to loosen the sponge out of the tin, then put on a cooling tray for about 30mins so it can cool further.

Ingredients for butter icing:
3/4oz Margerine
1/4 table spoon Milk
2oz Icing Sugar

Beat ingredients together until a thick paste. You'll notice this doesn't look very much, but you only need a thin layer of icing on the top, otherwise the cake becomes too sickly. I added red food colouring at this point, you only need a tiny drop.

Layer jam on one side of the sponge put the other sponge on top. Smooth the icing with a spatula over the top. Hundreds and thousands are optional..

Yummy Scrummy

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