Alex M made this sponge cake for his girlfriend Talia for her birthday, and we all got to eat it. Ain't that nice!

Ingredients:

175g soft butter
175g sugar
3 eggs
175g self raising flour
1tsp of baking powder
1tsp of vanilla extract

jam
whipped cream
icing sugar

steps:

1/ Preheat your oven to 180c and grease two 18cm cake tins. Line the tins.

2/ Cream the butter & sugar until they are light and fluffy and your arm is sore. Beat in the eggs one at a tim...
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Mama Chan got the special flower-shaped sponge tins from Hong Kong a while back. So her sponges look just like the ones you’d buy at a Chinese bakery.

½ c sugar
2 eggs
whisk until pale and creamy

fold in:
1/2 c flour
2 Tb cornflour
1 tb oil

Pour into greased tins. Bake at 190 C for 12-15 mins. That little bit of oil makes these sponges a different texture to other sponges.

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