Layered Valentines Sponge Cake

Love is in the air

Ingredients:

  • 220g self-raising flour
  • 1tsp baking powder
  • 220g caster sugar
  • 220g Connacht Gold Pure Irish Butter at room temperature
  • 4 eggs separated
  • 30ml Connacht Gold Fresh Milk

 

To Decorate:

  • 250ml Connacht Gold Fresh Cream
  • 3tbsp icing sugar
  • 200g raspberries
  • 200g strawberries
  • 150g blueberries
  • Mint leaves – optional
  • 100g white chocolate melted

Method:

  • Preheat oven to 180C, 160C fan, Gas 4

  • Whisk egg whites in a clean bowl until soft peaks form.

  • In another bowl, Sieve in the flour and baking powder.
    Add in the egg yolks, Connacht Gold butter and Connacht Gold Milk.
    Combine everything until you have a smooth batter.

  • Fold the whisked egg whites into the mixture gently.

  • Divide the mixture between the two tins evenly and bake in the centre of the oven for 25 mins until a skewer inserted into the middle of each cake comes out clean. After 10 mins remove the cakes from their tins and leave to cool completely on a wire rack.

  • Whip the Connacht Gold cream with the icing powder until soft peaks form, and refrigerate until it’s time to decorate.

  • Once completely cooled, divide the cream and spread half on top of one cake.

  • Decorate with some mixed fruit before placing the top cake on top and sandwiching them together.

  • Finish by spreading the remaining cream on top and have fun decorating with the remaining fruit, pile it high in the centre of the cake.

  • Finish by drizzling the melted chocolate on top of the cake and decorate with mint leaves and a dusting of icing sugar.

Recipes

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Chef Adrian
www.chefadrian.ie

Adrian Martin is an Irish chef brought up in County Cavan, Ireland. He trained in some of Ireland’s most renowned restaurants including MacNean House and Michelin Star restaurant, Bon Appetite in Malahide where he was head of Pastry.

Sarah Battle
@housebythewhitethorns

Sarah lives in the beautiful West of Ireland with her husband and their 5 kids. She began her blog in 2019 to showcase her passion for home improvement and decor and now uses her platform to showcase snippets of daily family life, baking tips and interior inspiration.

Sarah Butler
www.sarahbutlerathome.com
@sarahbutlerathome

Sarah is a Cookbook author from Co. Mayo. After 20 years working as a Graphic Designer her career curved into cooking during COVID.

She has since published three cookbook and now works full time as a food influencer teaching her simple, homecooked recipes with a focus on reducing food waste and making cooking and baking fun!

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