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This delicious vanilla cake with raspberry jam and buttercream is perfect for any celebration or even just a treat. A perfect first cake cake for little ones to try with a simple recipe and few ingredients.
Remember
You’ll need 2 cake tins
Add the jam then buttercream on top
Ingredients
200g Self raising flour
200g Caster Sugar
300g Butter
4 Medium eggs
250g icing sugar
1 tbs vanilla essence
100g raspberry jam
1tsb baking powder
Method
- Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4.
- Grease 2 x 20cm cake tins.
- Mix the sugar and 200g of the melted butter in a bowl.
- Stir in the flour, eggs, baking powder and vanilla essence.
- Pour half of the cake mix into each cake tin and smooth the surface with palette knife.
- Place the cakes in the oven for 20-25 mins to cook.
- Remove the cake tins and allow to cool.
- Mix 100g melted butter and 200g icing sugar in a bowl.
- Layer the jam on one of the cakes followed by the buttercream then place the final layer on top.
- Use the remaining icing sugar to dust the top of the cake.
Kid’s Guide
Ask a grown up to turn on the oven.- Measure 200g of butter.
- Measure 200g of sugar.
- Ask a grown up to help you melt the butter.
- Mix the butter and sugar together in a bowl.
- Measure 200g self-raising flour.
- Add the flour, 4 eggs, 1 tablespoon of baking powder and 1 tablespoon of vanilla essence into the bowl and stir.
- Grease 2 baking tins with butter.
- Pour half the cake mixture into each cake tin.
- Ask a grown up to put the tins in the oven.
- Measure 100g of butter.
- Ask a grown up to melt the butter.
- Measure 200g of icing sugar.
- Mix the melted butter and icing sugar in a bowl.
- Measure 100g of jam.
- When the cakes are cooked spoon the jam on top of one of them, then add the buttercream on top and smooth out.
- Add the second cake on top.
- Use a sieve to to add the rest of the icing sugar to the top of the cake.
Ask a grown up to turn on the oven.
Measure 200g of butter.
Mix the butter and sugar together in a bowl.
Measure 100g of butter.