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Eton Mess Cake

 

Ingredients

Cake Ingredients

• 300 g Stork/Unsalted Butter
• 300 g Caster Sugar
• 300 g Self Raising Flour
• 6 Medium Eggs
• 300 g Strawberries (Quartered/Halved)

Decoration

• 450 ml Double Cream
• 75 g Icing Sugar
• 2-4 tbsp Strawberry Jam
• 6 Meringue Nests
• Fresh Strawberries
• Freeze Dried Strawberries

Instructions

• Preheat your oven to 180/160C Fan, and line three 20 cm/8" Cake Tins with parchment paper.
• Add the Butter, Sugar, Self Raising Flour, and Eggs into a bowl, and beat together till smooth. 
• I use my Kitchenaid with the Paddle Attachment, and it takes about 30 seconds or so. Once smooth, split between your three tins evenly. 
• Add your strawberries to the tops of the cakes. If they're smaller strawberries I halve them, if they're larger I quarter them. Simply plop them on top.
• Once ready, put the cakes into the oven and bake for 25-30 minutes. The Strawberries create more moisture, and make it take a little longer to bake, so keep an eye on it after 20 minutes.
• Once baked, leave to cool in the tin for about 30 minutes, then remove carefully and finish cooling on a wire rack.
• Once cool, whip up your double cream with the icing sugar. 
• Spread a tablespoon or two of jam onto your first sponge, and crush over some meringue. 
• Spoon on 1/3 of the whipped cream, and spread. Add the second sponge and repeat. 
• On the third sponge, slather on the cream or pipe it, and add a fresh strawberry for each future slice. Sprinkle over some crushed meringue, and a sprinkle of Freeze Dried Strawberries. 

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