VINTAGE VICTORIA SPONGE CAKE (1)

Ingredients .....225gm of room temp butter/ marg, 1 cup of castor sugar , 4 eggs well beaten,1 and 1/2 cups of self raising flour , 1 dsp of baking powder, 1/4 cup of strawberry/ raspberry jam ,150 ml of cream ( whipped / beaten / thickened), icing sugar for dusting . Preheat your oven to 180 deg C. Lightly grease two 20cm round cake pans and line the bases with baking paper . Place the the butter ,sugar , eggs , flour , baking powder in the bowl of your electric mixer and beat until well blended , and thoroughly mixed to a creamy batter . Divide the mixture between the two prepared cake pans . Place the pans in the preheated oven for 25 minutes or until lightly browned and when tested with a skewer , the skewer comes out clean . Let the cakes cool in the pans for 10 minutes ,then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely . Fill the base of one cake with the jam and top with the thickened cream , place the remaining cake over top and dust lightly with icing sugar . Delicious ....and perfect with a cuppa and to share .