Victorian sponge cake

Name: Victorian sponge cake
Total time: 3000 s
Yield: 2 hr
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 250 g Flour; 250 g Sugar; 250 g Butter; 5 Eggs; 2 tsp Baking powder; 1 tsp Vanilla essence

Yirel Zawadi Okongo @zawadi_kitchen

Nairobi

This is sweet sponge cake baked with alot of eggs to trap air and done with butter icing. Yummy

Yirel Zawadi Okongo @zawadi_kitchen

Nairobi

This is sweet sponge cake baked with alot of eggs to trap air and done with butter icing. Yummy

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Ingredients

50mins

2 hr

250 gFlour
250 gSugar
250 gButter
5Eggs
2 tspBaking powder
1 tspVanilla essence

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Steps

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1

Prepare your baking tin and aet aside. Pre heat oven to 170 degrees celsius or medium heat
2

Measure all your ingredients. Take your dry ingredients and sift them onto a medium bowl i.e flour and baking powder and set aside.
3

In another bowl mix the sugar and butter.
4

Using a mixer or a whisk, cream the two until pale. Add vanilla essence.
5

Add the eggs, one at a time, beating until each egg is fully incorporated before adding another one
6

Add flour and continue beating on low speed just until combined
7

Pour the batter into the cake pans and place on the oven middle rack to bake
8

Bake for 40 mins to 50mins, or until a knife or a skewer inserted comes out clean. Cool for about 5 mins in the tin then removw cake from pan ans set on a tray or cooling rack