Basic
Sponge cake
Fitted well in an 8"
square tin but any shape will be fine - this same
mixture can be used to make small fairy cakes -
you could fill 12 paper cases (bake in the oven
in a patty or muffin tin for about 15 minutes)
and then use the rest for the main cake -
puddings and treats!
Ingredients.
300g/12oz/2 cups of self
raising flour
1 teaspoon of bicarbonate
of soda
100g/4oz/half a cup of
sugar
1 cup/8 fl.oz/200ml of
sunflower oil
1 cup of soya milk (or
possibly a little more to get a good mixture)
2 teaspoons of natural
vanilla extract (optional)
Oil your cake tin and
preheat oven to 180C/360F. Mix together your dry
ingredients of flour, sugar and bicarbonate. Make
a well in the middle and pour in the oil, soya
milk and vanilla - mix well. Pour into cake tin.
Bake for about half an hour or until cooked in
middle (insert a knife or skewer into the centre
of cake and if cooked it will come out clean).
Variations:
Top with chocolate chips prior to baking.
Add dried fruit or chopped nuts (50-100g) to the
mixture.
Once cool ice with melted chocolate or water
icing (50g. of icing sugar mixed with 1 or 2
teaspoons of hot water)
Add a mashed banana or two while mixing for
banana cake.
Add the juice and zest of a lemon - you can also
make lemon icing in the same way as water icing
using lemon juice instead of water.
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