Recipe - Elderflower sponge cake

Elderflower, vanilla and gooseberry jam sponge cake

Ingredients

320g Butter⁣

320g Sugar⁣

320g Self raising flour⁣

6 Eggs⁣

1 Vanilla pod (an extract is also fine)⁣

300ml Double cream⁣

200ml Elderflower syrup (see previous posts)⁣

170g Gooseberry jam⁣

Icing sugar⁣

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Method

Cream the butter and sugar then slowly add the eggs whisking until light and fluffy⁣

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Carefully fold in the flour then spread evenly into two cake tins (about 20cm each) lined with nonstick baking paper⁣

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Bake for about 25 minutes at 180.C until the knife comes out clean when inserted⁣

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Allow to cool slightly on a wire rack and turn out and peel away the baking paper⁣, then brush with half of the elderflower syrup

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Now whip the cream with the vanilla pod and the remaining elderflower syrup to a soft peak⁣

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Spread the cream over one of the cakes and the gooseberry jam over the over then sandwich the cakes together⁣

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Finish with a dusting of icing sugar and serve with a drink made from the Elderflower syrup (a boozy one always helps🍸)⁣