Simple sponge cake

Makes 10 slices

Ingredients
100g/4oz butter, softened
100g/4oz caster sugar
4 eggs
200g/7oz self-raising flour
2 tbsp of milk


Directions
Preheat oven to 180 c/350 f/Gas mark 4. Line a loose-bottomed, 20cm/8in cake tin with
none-stick baking paper.

Cream together the butter and sugar untill light and fluffy. Beat in the eggs one at a time.
Fold creamed mixture into the flour then stir in the milk.

Spoon mixture into the tin and level off. Bake for 25 minutes, or untill a nife inserted into
the centre of the cake comes out clean. Take cake out of the tin and put on a wire rack to
cool.