Victorian sponge cake

Name: Victorian sponge cake
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 250 g flour; 250 g sugar; 250 g Butter/margarine; 5 eggs; 2 tsp baking powder; 2 tsp vanilla essence

Evance kythree @cook_9221847

Victorian sponge cake

Evance kythree @cook_9221847

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Steps

1

Prepare your baking tins and set aside, preheat your oven to 170°c or medium heat
2

Measure all your ingredients. Take your dry ingredients and sift them onto a medium bowl.
3

In another bowl mix the sugar and butter /margarine
4

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

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

Add the flour and continue beating on low speed just until combined.
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Pour the batter into the cake pans and place in the oven middle rack to bake.
8

Bake foe 40 - 50minutes,or until a knife or a skewer inserted comes out clean.
9

Cool for about 5minutes in the tin then remove cake from pan and set on a tray or cooling rack.