STRAWBERRY CREAM SPONGE .

Not everyone likes fruit cake, but everyone loves a cream sponge and this sponge can be enjoyed and shared all year round. Ingredients.....4 eggs, separated, 1/2 of a cup of castor sugar, 1 tsp of vanilla extract, 1/4 cup of cornflour, 1/2 cup of plain flour. Strawberry cream ingredients......1 and 1/2 cups of thickened cream, 175 gm of fresh strawberries, chopped. Preheat your oven to 180 deg C. Lightly grease and line a 20 cm springform pan. Set aside 1 tbs of the sugar. Place the egg yolks, vanilla extract and remaining sugar in the bowl of your electric mixer and beat for 10 minutes until light and creamy. Place the egg whites in a medium non metallic bowl and beat with an electric beater until soft peaks form. Add reserved sugar and continue beating until firm peaks form. Fold the flour and cornflour into the egg yolk mixture, then gently fold in the egg whites. Place in the prepared pan and bake in the preheated oven for 30 minutes or until the cake springs back when touched in the centre. Remove and cool on a wire rack. While the cake is cooling make the strawberry cream, beat the cream until stiff then fold through half of the chopped strawberries. Now carefully slice the sponge cake in half, spreading one half with half of the strawberry cream. top with the other sponge layer and top with remaining strawberry cream. Top with remaining chopped strawberries. Enjoy the sponge and the compliments that will come your way.