Ingredients
4 | eggs, at room temperature |
1 scant cup | caster sugar |
1 cup | self-raising flour |
1 tsp | vanilla essence |
1 tsp | butter |
4 Tbsp | hot water |
300 g | whipped cream |
Pinch of salt | |
Jam | |
Strawberries | |
Chocolate |
Preparation
- Grease and flour 2 round cake pans of 18 cm.
- Preheat oven to 180ºC.
- Beat eggs and sugar together at speed 5 for 7-8 minutes. Add vanilla essence toward the end.
- Sift flour and salt together 3 times, then add to the eggs. Mix 30 seconds on speed 1.
- Melt the butter in the hot water and fold through the mixture.
- Pour evenly into the cake pans and bake for 20 minutes, when the cakes should be pulling away from the sides of the pans.
- Cool in pans for 5 minutes, then turn out onto racks.
- Fill with jam and whipped cream, top with more cream, fresh strawberries and grated chocolate.