Name: Sponge Cake with Preserves
Ingredients: 1 plain sponge cake (6-8 inches in diameter); various preserves; strawberries; icing sugar; red icing

Sponge Cake with Preserves

Ingredients

Directions

Make the cake

Bake a plain sponge cake in a round mold.
Once cooled, cut the cake into slices.

Fill and decorate

Spread a different type of preserve between each layer.
Place strawberries on top of the cake.
Cover the entire cake with a thick layer of icing sugar.
Decorate with red icing.

Recipe from a historical cookbook (Internet Archive).

Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.

Explore the science

What each ingredient does

Plain sponge cake: Provides a light, airy base that holds the layers together.
Various preserves: Adds sweetness and fruity flavor between the cake layers.
Strawberries: Adds fresh fruit flavor and a bright topping.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.