All-in-one Sandwich Cake Recipe

100 g/4 oz butter or margarine, softened
100 g/4 oz caster (superfine) sugar
2 eggs
100 g/4 oz/1 cup self-raising (self-rising) flour
5 ml/1 tsp baking powder
150 ml double (heavy) cream
Icing (confectioners') sugar, sifted, for dusting

Method:

Place all the ingredients except the cream in a bowl and beat together until smooth. Spoon the mixture into two greased and lined 20 cm/8 in sandwich tins (pans) and bake in a preheated oven at 160°C/325°F/gas mark 3 for 35 minutes until springy to the touch. Leave to cool on a wire rack.

Whip the cream until stiff. Sandwich together the cakes with the cream and dust with icing sugar.