recipe for a guarenteed to rise sponge cake?

[misdee]

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use any sponge recipe and just add a teaspoon of baking powder

i dont have a sponge recipe here, have you got one?

Eggs butter sugar stage LOTS of whisking, flour stage SLOW folding. That'll do it!

6oz butter, sugar 3 eggs, then 6 oz SR flour, halve in buttered tins, 20 mins 160 hurrah!!

or 4 and 2 eggs, 8 and 4 eggs etc etc...

2 or 3 or 4 eggs, their weight in butter, sugar and SR flour.
Cream butter and sugar till light and fluffy
Add eggs
Add flour
Put in cake tin or tins.
Bake.
FAB!

how big d'you want it?

Basic recipe for 6 fairy cakes or a single layer of sponge is
50g butter
50g sugar
1 egg
50g self-raising flour (with extra tsp of baking powder if you like - I never use it)

Cream butter and sugar (don't just mix, beat till pale and fluffy and your arm hurts. Or use electric beater)
Beat the egg in a mug and add a little at a time to the butter mix, beating again.
Sift flour into mix and fold in gently with metal spoon.

Pour into buttered cake tin and bake immediately - don't leave it sitting around.

thank you!

just need to get some sugar from the shop

I've just looked up the recipe I use.. I gues you'll have answers by the time I've wrote this.

4oz Self Raising Flour,
4oz marg
4oz sugar
2 eggs.
1tsp vanilla essence

Whisk marg and sugar together until really fluffy, it goes from yellow to a lighter yellwy white.

Whisk the eggs, again, really whisk them as much as possible.

Add flour in to marg and sugar mixture, bit at a time, with the whisked egg also a bit at a time.

Mixture should be a nice "dropping consistency" I.e put it on the spoon and give it a flick of the wrist, it should go with a noice plop back into the bowl. I usually double the mixture, to make two cake tins full, and also knock out an ounce of flour for an ounce of cocoa powder to make a choc cake... (well, no one in the house has complained yet!)