Sponge cake with strawberries and cream

Name: Sponge cake with strawberries and cream
Ingredients: 450 g/1 lb/4 cups strawberries, washed and hulled; a little orange liqueur (optional); oil, for greasing; 115 g/4 oz/generous ½ cup caster (superfine) sugar, plus extra for dusting; 90 g/3½ oz/¾ cup plain (all-purpose) flour, sifted, plus extra for dusting; 4 eggs; icing (confectioners’) sugar, for dusting; 300 ml/½ pint/1¼ cups double (heavy) cream; about 5 ml/1 tsp icing (confectioners’) sugar, sifted

Preparation info

Serves
8–10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Cakes

By Ann Nicol

Published 2014

About

This classic summer treat is filled with ripe, fragrant strawberries. To ensure a perfect sponge, have all the ingredients at room temperature. Eat this cake on the day it is made.

Ingredients

oil, for greasing
115 g/4 oz/generous ½ cup caster (superfine) su

Cake
Vegetarian
Summer

Method

Preheat the oven to 190°C/375°F/Gas 5. Grease a round 20cm/8in cake tin (pan). Dust the tin with 10ml/2 tsp caster sugar and flour combined. Tap out the excess.
Put the eggs and sugar into a bowl and use an electric whisk at high speed until the mixtur