Choose your favourite filling for this easy sponge cake – we've opted for lemon curd and whipped cream, but you could have jam. Perfect for afternoon tea
Nutrition and extra info
- Freezable
- Vegetarian
Nutrition: Per serving
- kcal376
- fat21g
- saturates12g
- carbs40g
- sugars23g
- fibre1g
- protein6g
- salt0.7g
Ingredients
- 225g softened butter
Butter
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- 225g golden caster sugar
- 4 large eggs
Egg
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- ½ lemon, zested
Lemon
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- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 225g self-raising flour
- splash of milk
Milk
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- Optional fillings of lemon curd, jam, lightly whipped cream
- icing sugar for dusting
Method
Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4, butter and line the base of two 20cm spring-form cake tins with baking parchment.
Using an electric whisk beat the butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy. Crack the eggs in one at a time and whisk well, scraping down the sides of the bowl after each addition. Add the lemon zest, vanilla, flour, milk and a pinch of salt. Whisk until just combined then divide the mixture between the two tins.
Bake in the centre of the oven for 25-30 mins until a skewer inserted into the middle of each cake comes out clean. After 10 mins remove the cakes from their tins and leave to cool completely on a wire rack. Fill how you like. My personal favourite is a good dollop of lemon curd and some fresh cream, then dust the top with icing sugar. Will keep for 3 days.
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