The easiest and tastiest sponge I have made! I decorated with fresh strawberries instead of the granulated sugar and it was delicious!

This cake is great!! Used fresh strawberries for a birthday, both in filling and the in thin slices covering the cake, it looked great and was so easy. Then made it with raspberries, blueberries and blackberries for Mother's day making a M in blueberries and then circles alternating with raspberries and blueberries, which gave it a nice spring/summer touch. Everyone just loves it and wants one for their Birthdays!

All time favourite of the whole family..... and very easy to make too!!

Very easy and quick cake recipe. I cooked mine in a 2lbs loaf tin and used flora light butter and vanilla paste instead of the extract. The cake turned out perfectly. I cooked mine at 160 fan for 55 mins. I didn't use the filling in this recipe, I had extra vanilla buttercream I made (from the easy vanilla cake recipe, also on this site), but I found it very sweet, so next time I won't add any filling as I think it's sweet enough without.

This is my 5 year old sons new favourite cake. Living in Canada, I have to buy flour from a British shop and he is now going on at me to go and get more so he can have this cake again. I only filled with raspberry jam..

I made this for my son's 18th birthday, he did not appreciate it and he said that the layering was all wrong.

I layered with strawberries and cream and wasn't too sweet at alll-everyone had seconds! Looked very impressive too.

definitely worth making. and the best part is the filling can be changed according to the occassion , mood or season for availability of fruits.

this was the best sponge cake i have ever made. very easy to make and so light and tasty. I made this as a birthday cake for my husband. I used whipped creal and small pieces of frozen pineapple for filling and decoration. It turned out to be a super hit, tasted like original pineapple pastry. I would love to make this again.

Double Cream or Whipping Cream? What would you suggest as the best to use?

Planning on making this for my 11yr old's Birthday at the weekend and want it to be perfect :-)

Thank you for this easy peasy recipe! I'm a first time baker and baked this cake (with some changes) last night and it was fantastic. Minor changes - reduced the sugar in the sponge to 150gms as I dont have a hyper-sweet tooth. Also, I swapped the strawberry jam (and vanilla pod) with alphonso mango puree.

PS: My cake batter wasn't exactly runny as I had expected it to be, but it turned out to be a fine, golden sponge.

I used the ingredients for the sponge to make my husband's birthday cake. I then used strawberry jam in the centre and used vanilla frosting in the middle and all over the cake and decorated with jelly sweets. Very tasty!

This cake is SCRUMPTIOUS.

I made it for a friend's birthday party and it was the perfect cake for sharing - we got 20 good sized slices out of it!

The only difference for us was that we sliced (horizontally) some strawberries and placed in a whirling circle from the outside inwards on the top of the icing instead of the pink heart. Also dusted with icing sugar.

The sponge was moist, the cream and jam combination perfect and although I agree it was a sinfully sweet, it was not overpowering.

Overall, a fantastic cake, fantastic recipe, and I will be looking for excuses to make this cake again ASAP!

Made this recipe about 10 times now and it is beautiful every time!!
Always make for work cake bake offs and my cake is always the first to go... I always make my own jam though, either strawberries, or blackberries and not too sweet, as the cake and cream are sweet enough! I've also done slight variations and instead of the cream on top, just sprinkled icing sugar, and actually prefer this, as in terms of presentation, looks much neater and the cream doesn't all drop off at the side (which tends to happen to my cakes - maybe cause I put too much cream on top!).

Absolutely delicious, made this with my daughter, she thought it was brilliant making the sugar pink.

Was absolutely delicious, I doubled the ingredients to make a very large cake as we had lot's too feed and almost everyone had seconds, I would add an extra splash of Vanilla to both the sponge and icing though

Made this for my husbands birthday, sponge was amazing, moist and light. I filled it with raspberry jam, fresh raspberries & buttercream so that it would keep better without the need for keeping in fridge. I topped it with pink fondant icing that drizzles over the edge. I used 3 tspoons of vanilla after reading other reviews. It was so quick & easy & the best cake I've made! Highly recommend! went down a treat!

Tastes lovely although I found the buttercream was a bit too strong after I had doubled amounts to make more of it. Found it nearly died on me as if you don't leave it in the fridge for a while to cool down before sticking the sponges together everything melts and falls apart. Luckily my boyfriend managed to save it, eventually. But it really does need to be completely cold before you add the jam and buttercream, etc.

i made this cake for my husband using fresh strawberries and the cream recipie it was gorgeous and then i made the same cake for my daughters birthday however instead of using the white cream and strawberries i made chocolate cream i used 11/2 tbs icing sugar and 1/12 tbs of cocoa pwder in the cream recipie it was gorgeous i also put some chocolate chips in the cake mixture then baked it and topped it with some chocolate sprinkles she loved it

Great Cake!!! Everyone loved it, and was so easy to make!