Ingredients
200g powdered sugar
200g softened butter
4 eggs
, beaten
200g self-rising flour
1 tsp leaven
2 tbsp milk
For the filling
100g butter
, softened
140g powdered sugar, sifted
drop flavoring (optional)
half a 340g jar good-quality strawberry preserves (we used Tiptree very little Scarlet)
icing sugar, to brighten
Heat kitchen appliance to 190C/fan 170C/gas five. Butter 2 20cm sandwich tins and line with non-stick baking paper.
In a giant bowl, beat all the cake ingredients along till you have got a sleek, soft batter.
Divide the mixture between the tins, sleek the surface with a spatula or the rear of a spoon. Bake for regarding twenty minutes till golden and therefore the cake springs back once ironed.
Turn onto a cooling rack and leave to cool down fully.
To make the filling, beat the butter till sleek and creamy, then bit by bit drill in powdered sugar. drill in flavourer if you’re victimization it.
Spread the butter cream over rock bottom of 1 of the sponges. high it with jam and sandwich the second put on high.
Dust with somewhat powdered sugar before serving. confine associate airtight instrumentation and eat at intervals a pair of days.