Quick and Easy Vanilla Sponge Cake

INGREDIENTS

125g butter
250 ml sugar
2 tbsp vanilla essence
3 eggs
500 ml cake flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
2 cups milk

Chocolate Ganache Icing

2 slabs milky bar
4 tbsp dessert cream

Butter Icing

100 g butter softened
500 ml icing sugar
1 tsp vanilla essence
+ - 2 tbsp milk

METHOD

• Preheat oven to 180° and grease a round cake tin
• Cream butter and sugar together until light and creamy
• Add vanilla essence
• Separate egg yolks from egg whites and add only the egg yolks to batter one at a time mixing well after each addition 
• Sift the flour , baking powder & salt together
• Fold into the creamed mixture, alternating with milk
• Lastly fold in the egg whites to mixture gently
• Pour mixture into cake pan and bake until golden in color or when knife comes out clean when inserted into cake
• Ice the cake with either the chocolate ganache icing OR the butter icing

ICING

   

Chocolate ganache 

• Melt chocolate and mix dessert cream into melted chocolate
• Spread over cake , garnish the top of cake with grated chocolate of your choice 

Butter Icing

• Cream butter and icing sugar together
• Add vanilla essence and enough milk to make a soft spreading consistency
• Spread over cake and garnish with decorations of your choice

* 2 cakes can be made and sandwiched together with icing