Please share your foolproof sponge recipe

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I haven't properly baked a cake in a few years. Literally!

I've done a few cake mixes with my toddler, and we've baked cookies, but I want to make a real cake again and my daughter will enjoy mixing and helping measure things instead of just emptying the cake mix and mixing in an egg or whatever.

So, what is your foolproof no fail method?
Thanks

Mary Berry all-in-one, I cant be fecked with all the creaming and folding etc etc

Get a probe thermometer. Take the cake out when it’s around 95 degrees. I bake a lot of cakes every week and they have to be perfect it I don’t get paid!

4oz Self Raising Flour
4oz Actual butter
4oz Caster Sugar
2 Big eggs
1tsp Baking powder
2 tbsp Cocoa Powder
Big slosh of Baileys

Just mix it all in one. You can do it in a mixer or by hand like me (mixer died and I still need cake) you will know when it is mixed well because it will stop looking disgusting and start looking delicious.

Bake it however your oven lets you bake cakes. All of mine have been different (cake-wasting bastards).

Ohh, loads more since I've been gone. Thank you all!

Bertrand you are living my dream! haha. I often dream of making amazing cakes that everybody wants to buy... Unfortunately I make cakes that look like something a 4 year old would bring home proudly and tell you they did all by themselves. They can taste OK, but they'll never look good. Beautiful on the inside, a mess on the outside

lazy Bailey's? That's new! What does that do? Is it for taste or something else?

“Bake it however your oven lets you bake cakes. All of mine have been different (cake-wasting bastards).”

You REALLY need a probe thermometer.......

"Mary Berry all-in-one, I cant be fecked with all the creaming and folding etc etc"

This ^^ with bells on. I have made cakes both ways, and you really cannot tell the difference. I don't know why anyone still uses the creaming method these days.

PM well... cocoa powder dries it out so Baileys makes it wet again! Also it tastes nice. It goes nicely with the chocolatey flavour.

Bertrand I really do!!

cocoa powder dries it out so Baileys makes it wet again

A spoonful of Mayonnaise also does this! I guess it’s mainly eggs and oil so not as weird as it sounds.