Make sure the butter is at room temperature before you begin. First grease your baking pan and dust it with flour. Now, start by sifting together the flour and baking powder. Then cream your butter with a wooden spoon till light and fluffy and add castor sugar and cream ti well.

Preheat oven to 180 C. Add the eggs one by one and use the wooden spoon to mix it well so that it becomes fluffy. Now fold in the sifted flour-baking powder mixture but add it by sifting it once again. (This ensures that your cake is light in texture)

Bake for 30 minutes in regular ovens and 40 minutes in convection ovens. Once baked insert a toothpick and if it comes out clean your cake is baked. Let it rest in the pan for 15 minutes, take it out and then let is rest for another 30 minutes before serving. You can serve it with whipped cream.

If you want to use layers of whipped cream and strawberry compote. let the cake rest for half a day and then bake another layer or cut this into two discs and apply whipped cream and strawberry compote generously as a filling and on top.

If making strawberry compote use 100gm fresh strawberries. Remove the stalk and then chop it up and mix well with 70gm sugar. Leave it for half a day and then bring to slow boil with 1 tbsp lemon juice and simmer till you get a thick compote.