Ingredients

• 8              oz butter
• 8              oz sugar
• 4              eggs
• 8              oz white flour
• 2              level tsp Baking Powder
• 1              tsp  vanilla essence
• ½             cup luke warm water

Filling

• 4              tbsp strawberry Jam

Decoration

• Icing Sugar

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
2. Cream butter and sugar until light and creamy.
3. Beat in eggs one at a time.
4. Fold in the white flour and baking powder, together with the water to give a dropping consistency.
5. Pour the mixture into 2 greased 8″ round cake tin and bake for about 20 min or until done.
6. Cool on a wire cooling tray, sandwich with the jam and decorate with icing sugar.

Note:

To test cake: –

1. press gently with a finger, if no impression remains cake is cooked.
2. Prick it with a tooth pick and if the tooth pick comes out clean the cake is done.

Chocolate Cake

Substitute 1 oz cocoa for flour.

Coconut

Add 2 oz coconut

Orange or lemon

add zest of 1 orange or 1 lemon and the juice.