Hot-milk sponge cake with strawberries
This cake has it all: feather-light texture; smooth, creamy filling and sweet, tangy strawberries.
Ingredients:
- 8 free range eggs
- 520 g castor sugar
- 560 g cake flour
- 2 T baking powder
- 1 t salt
- 250 g butter
- 500 ml milk
- 2 t vanilla extract
- 200 g strawberries, hulled and halved
- 3 T sugar
- 500 ml double-thick cream
- 3 T icing sugar
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 180°C.
- Using an electric hand-mixer, beat the eggs and sugar in a large mixing bowl until pale and fluffy.
- Sift in the flour, baking powder and salt and mix using a wooden spoon.
- Melt the butter in the milk, then add to the mixture, along with the vanilla. Mix to form a runny batter.
- Divide the batter between 2 x 23cm greased springform baking tins and bake for 30 minutes, or until a skewer when inserted comes out clean. Remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack.
- Combine the strawberries and sugar and allow to stand for 30 minutes.
- Once the cakes have cooled completely, place one on a cake stand and spread with the double-thick cream. Spoon the strawberries onto the cream and place the second cake on top, creating a sandwich.
- Dust the cake with sifted icing sugar.
(Serves 8-12)
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