Hot Milk sponge cake

4 xlg Eggs

5ml vanilla Essence

100g Butter or margarine

310ml castor sugar

250ml Milk

500ml cake flour

15ml baking powder

Basic Icing

100g Soft Butter

500ml Icing Sugar

Colorant of your choice

5ml vanilla essence

30ml Milk

Chocolate Icing

100g Soft butter

30ml Milk

2ml Vanilla essence

30 Hot water

30ml Cocoa powder

500ml Icing Sugar

Preheat oven to 180’ c and prepare two round cake tins 20cm

For the sponge: Cream the eggs and the sugar till light and fluffy.  Sift baking powder and flour and add to egg mixture.

In a saucepan, heat the milk and the butter. Do not boil the mixture.  Stir milk mixture and vanilla essence into the batter.  Spoon into prepared tins when cooled cut into shapes.

For the icing: mix ingredients together till light and fluffy and spread over cake, and decorate with your choice of decorations.

Variation:

Chocolate cake – Add 50ml Cocoa powder to the dry ingredients and 5ml flavourant to the batter.

This cake recipe can be double to make larger cakes.