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Ingredients
- 400g Sugar
- 250g Self Raising Flour
- 6 Eggs
Equipment
- Two cake mixing bowls
- A electronic cake whisk
- Oven
- A large mixing spoon
- A Cake Baking Tin, with removeable bottom
- Greese proof paper
- Scissors
- Penncil
- Skewer
- Bread knife
Receipe
Building Cake Mixture
- Separate the whites from the yolks from 4 eggs
- Put the 4 yolks, plus the two remaining unseparated eggs into a mixing bowl
- Add the sugar to the bowl
- Mix the business in the bowl with the whisk
- Add the flour into the mix and whisk with a large spoon
- Add the 4 egg whites into the other bowl
- Mix with the electronic whisk
- Add the whisked egg whites foam into the first bowl
- Mix with a large spoon
- At this stage, additional flavours can be added, into the mixture, such as
- chocolate chips
- nut chippings
- cocoa powerder to make a chocolate sponge
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Baking Preparation
- Preheat the oven at 200°C for about ten minutes
- Take the baking tin and the greese proof paper
- Take the pencil and drawthe outline of the baking tin onto the greese proof paper
- Cut out the greese proof paper along the pencil line
- Place the cut out piece of greese proof paper and place at the bottom, inside the baking tin
- Greese the tin, with the paper with the margarine
- Empty the cake mixture onto the cake tin, ontop of the placed-inside greese proof paper
Baking
- Place the baking tin with the cake mixture into the preheated oven for abot 1½ – 2 hours
- Place the skewer into the centre of the cake, and then take out, if it comes out clean it is baked through
Post Bake
- Take out place onto an oven shelf. in the tin for two minutes
- After two minutes, undo the tin, and remove the tin, and leave the cake on the bottom.
- Leave the sponge for another ten minutes
- With the greese proof paper, the cake sponge should move away from the bottom from ease.
- The greese proof, should be easily able to be peeled off.
Decorating the cake
To place something at the mid way point of the sponge
- Take the sponge, and use a bread cutting knife
- Turn the sponge 90°
- And carefully cut at the mid point, accross the entire sponge
- On the two halves
- Place whatever spread desired
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