Quick Bake Victoria Sponge Cake ( Microwave recipe)

Healthiness : (39 votes)

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Comments: This is a microwave cooked cake. Use oven gloves to handle the hot cake and it's container, just like you would if it had been oven baked.
Preparation Time: 15 mins
Cooking Time: 6 minutes
Number of servings: About 6 servings


This is a modern cake method, using a microwave to cook the cake mixture. This is a very fast method for cake cooking. You will find that microwave cooking times vary, so adjust times to suit yours. Microwaved cakes do not brown like oven baked cakes, so icing or frosting can be used to make them a bit prettier.

• 6 oz butter
• 6 oz selfraising flour
• 6 oz sugar
• 3 eggs

• mixing bowl
• electric/hand whisk
• bowl,
• fork 
• a jug/ microwaveable bowl to cook it in.

Always wash your hands before preparing food.

1. weigh out yor ingredients
2. cream the butter and sugar
3. beat the eggs one by one and add them to you butter and sugar one by one and give it a tiny stir after you have added each egg
4. add in the flour gradually
5. add a tiny drop of milk to make it more moist than usual
6. tip you mixtre onto some sort of container
7. put it in the micro wave for 6 minutes
8. Tip - if your cake looks like it isnt cooked put it in the micro wave for one minute each time till you think it is cooked

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Name: Chrisse	5th June 2013
line dish with butter pour in a few centimetres of syrup before you put mixture in. cook and turn upside down. Even better.

Name: Christine	10th April 2013
Gonna have a bash at this today...heres hoping all turns out well..

Name: Liz	1st April 2013
very pleased with the recipe so quick and easy

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