
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 🙂
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