Strawberry And Cream Cake

Total Time: 50 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 8 ounces butter, almost melted
• 8 ounces caster sugar
• 4 eggs
• 8 ounces self-raising flour, seived
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 3 tablespoons strawberry jam
• 250 g strawberries
• 300 ml whipped cream

Recipe

• 1 cream the butter and caster sugar until and fluffy.
• 2 beat each egg individually into the mix.
• 3 stir in the vanilla extract, and fold in the flour.
• 4 grease and flour two 9" cake tins and evenly pour the mixture into both.
• 5 pre heat the oven to gas mark 5 and cook for 25 minutes.
• 6 turn the tins after 15 minutes so that the cakes rise evenly.
• 7 remove from the oven and cool on a wire rack.
• 8 cover one cake sandwich with the strawberry jam, and 100g of the strawberries finely chopped.
• 9 cover with 2 tbls of cream and place the other cake sandwich on top.
• 10 coat the top and sides of the cake with the whipped cream.
• 11 cut the remaining strawberries into quarters and arrange on the top of the cake.