Easy chocolate sponge cake

shellybaby
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Easiest cake to make - made it for hubby's birthday - he loved it! :-)

Easy chocolate sponge cake

Easiest cake to make - made it for hubby's birthday - he loved it! :-)

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Ingredients

8 servings
  1. 175 gramsmargarine
  2. 115 gramscaster sugar
  3. 50 gramsgolden syrup
  4. 175 gramsself-raising flour - sifted
  5. 3 tbspcocoa powder - sifted
  6. 3 mediumfree range eggs
  7. 2 tbspraspbery jam/orange marmalade
  8. 150 mlwhipping cream
  9. icing sugar for dusting

Cooking Instructions

  1. 1

    Grease and line two 18cm round cake tins.

  2. 2

    Preheat oven to 180°c.

  3. 3

    Place margarine, sugar, golden syrup, flour, cocoa and eggs into a large bowl and cream together until well blended.

  4. 4

    Divide the mixture evenly between the prepared cake tins and bake in the middle of the oven for about 20 minutes until tops are just firm and the cakes are springy to the touch.

  5. 5

    Leave the cakes to cool in the tins for 5 minutes then remove from the tins and leave to go completely cold on a wire rack.

  6. 6

    Spread one cake with the jam/marmalade.

  7. 7

    Whip the cream until thick and spread evenly over the jam/marmalade.

  8. 8

    Place the other cake on top and dust with icing sugar.

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