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Our easy sponge cake recipe is foolproof. With only five ingredients this basic cake recipe just needs your favourite icing and you're sorted. It's a small sponge cake, made in an 18cm or 7in cake tin ...

If you have regular sugar, you can make caster sugar at home by grinding down granulated sugar to a powder. You could use brown sugar but it will impart a different taste and colour. Optionally fold ...