Strawberry Cream Cake

June is the perfect time for summer cakes despite the rain as you can enjoy summer by baking your cake and eating it too! The strawberry season was perfect in early June and I this cake went quickly as soon as it was set on the table. It's incredibly simple and a delight to make!

I modified this recipe from BBC good food's recipe of their amazing Victorian Sponge Cake, which was obviously very vital to making a nice fluffy cake. The link is:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/victoriaspongewithst_90309

Definitely preferable if you have two sandwich tins so you can make a little layer inbetween them which just adds to its look!

Recipe

Ingredients:
For Victorian Sponge Cake (directly from BBC Good Food),
225g of butter
225g of caster sugar
225g of self-raising flour

4 large free-range eggs
1 tsp of vanilla essence
For filling and garnish,
200g whipping cream (no need to be accurate; but more is better!)
125g of strawberries (depending on how much you want on it!)
2 tbsp caster sugar

Directions:

1. Prepare two 17cm sandwich tins by lining them with baking paper. Preheat the oven to 180C/gas mark 4.
2. Sift the flour in a large bowl. Set aside.
3. In another bowl, cream together butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
4. Now add the eggs and flour into the butter mix. To do so, slowly add flour into the butter mix, alternating with each egg. I use this technique to ensure the batter doesn't get too dry or wet and to not overbeat the mix. Add 1 tsp of vanilla essence.
5.  Pour the mix equally into both sandwich tins and level it with a spatula. Place in the oven and bake for 20 minutes or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean. Leave to cool.
6. Flip the cakes upside-down and peel off the baking paper. Turn them over again and set them side by side.
7.  For the topping and filling, first cut the strawberries into quarters.
8. Using a mixer (as it is much easier!), beat the whipping cream with the caster sugar until it is slightly stiff and forms small peaks. Do not overbeat it as it will curdle!
9. Using a spatula (or the blunt edge of a wide knife), spread the whipped cream over one of the cakes. Then place the strawberries generously over the cake. Put the other cake on top of this and repeat by spreading the whipped cream. Decorate it with the strawberries and you're ready to eat!

This is an amazingly light cake, which makes it so more-ish and impressive when presented! So I definitely recommend making this to those who have that nagging strawberry craving as I made it out of a whim and it turned out great! Effortless and tasty, just what every girl wants ;)