Sponge Drops

Sponge drops are not so much cupcakes as saucer-cakes. You make up a very light batter and drop spoonfuls on a baking sheet. Bake them, cool them and sandwich them together with cream, jam and a few berries and you have mouthfuls of heaven. These taste so much better than their school-dinner name evokes: the lightness of the sponge together with the cool fatness of the cream and the juicy sweetness of the berries, and all in such small quantities (and I never thought I’d be grateful for tha