Fresh Fruit and Cream Sponge Cake

The combination of cake, fruit and cream is delicious! One of my favourite cakes, great for guests or special occasions.

Serves 16 | Preparation Time: 45 minutes | Cooking Time: 15-20 minutes

Ingredients Required:

• 250g Butter
• 250g Caster Sugar
• 4 Free Range Eggs
• 250g Self Raising Flour
• 1 teaspoon Baking Powder
• 600ml Double Cream
• 50g Icing Sugar
• 1 Fruit Cocktail Tin (415g approx)
• 1 cup Strawberries
• 1⁄2 cup Sliced Kiwi
• 1 cup Pineapple Chunks
• 1 cup Peach Slices

Method:

• Preheat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas mark 5 and grease and line two 8 inch sandwich tins

For the cake:

• Melt the butter, add it to a large mixing bowl with the sugar and mix until well combined.
• Crack the eggs into a small bowl and mix the eggs but don’t whisk thoroughly.
• Add the eggs a little at a time to the butter and sugar mixture, whisking as you add, until light and fluffy.
• Sieve the flour into the mixing bowl, and fold it into the mixture using a wooden spoon.
• Mix in the vanilla powder and baking soda.
• If the mixture is too thick, add a little water. You should be able to pour the mixture easily into the tins.
• Share the mixture evenly between two sandwich tins and place tins into the oven for 25-30 minutes.
• Remove cakes from the oven when the top is golden brown and a skewer inserted into centre of cakes comes out clean.
• Allow the cakes to cool (leave them in the tins).

For the cream topping:

• Add the double cream and icing sugar to a large mixing bowl.
• Whisk the mixture until it is firm and thick.

For the filling:

• Drain the tin of fruit cocktail into a bowl.
• Add a third of the cream topping mixture to the fruit cocktail and mix together.

Assemble the cake:

• Take one of the cakes and top it with the fruit cocktail and cream mixture, spreading evenly over the cake.
• Place the other cake carefully over this cake, and remove the cakes onto a serving plate.
• Using a palate knife, spread the remaining cream topping evenly on top of the cake and the sides.
• Decorate cake with the fruit. (Add any fruit of your choice, the fruit I added is my personal preference)

Enjoy 🙂