Cake # 11 Vanilla Sponge Layer Cake

Greetings cake lovers! I am posting so very late today because I just got finished cleaning up my daughter's toys from her very FIRST Birthday Party! I know what you all are thinking - Did I make the birthday cake? No I did not. See my mother actually is an amazing baker and does designer birthday cakes really well. Her cakes were what inspired me to learn how to bake myself. It has always been the tradition in our family that the grandmother makes the first birthday cake. So my mom made it. She made Evie a giraffe face cake - just for Evie to eat, then she made a jungled-theme sheet cake for the rest of the party, and finally she made cupcakes with different fillings. Super awesome!

Evie thought it tasted great too!

Anyway, because the big birthday girl bonanza party was today, I made my 11th cake, the Vanilla Sponge Layer Cake on Friday and brought it to school for the Social Studies Department to devour. I will admit, I tasted a bit of it myself before I sent it to school. It was very tasty, it tasted like it should be a breakfast cake - are there such things as breakfast cakes? If not, there should be a cake group designed for breakfast - and I am not simply talking about the "I am hungover and there is left over cake in the fridge" breakfast cake, I mean a cake that is specifically made to be eaten in the morning- maybe an icing free cake? Who knows. What I do know is that I think my cake would fit into this fictitious category quite well. That is because it contains strawberry jam- and if you eat it right out of the oven, the sponge is super moist and flaky all at the same time.

Besides strawberry jam, this cake called for butter, flour, baking powder, sugar, eggs, vanilla, and milk. The icing was super simple to make, it called for butter, powdered sugar, and vanilla. I like that I know that I can whip up an icing for a cake that is going to be sweet- but not birthday- store- bought- cake- sweet, in just a few minutes and put it on anything. For example, that icing would go great on cinnamon buns too.

Here is what the cake looked like in the book:

Here is what my cake looked like:

I got a lot of compliments about this cake- none of if made it back home after I brought it to school. Next Saturday I am making a Carrot Cake with Orange Frosting- until then, I am going to bed, what a day!