Method:

• Step 1

  Preheat your oven to 180 and grease two baking tins.

• Step 2

  Beat together the butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla, flour and baking powder until you have a nice smooth mixture.

• Step 3

  Spoon the mixture evenly into two baking tins and spread it to cover the bottom of the tins.

• Step 4

  Now bake this in the oven for 25-30 mins. Test by poking a metal skewer into the centre of your cake. If it comes out dry, your cake is ready.

• Step 5

  When its nice and golden remove from the oven and allow to cool on a cooling rack.

• Step 6

  For the icing, beat together your butter, icing sugar, vanilla extract and milk until you have a nice, thick buttercream.

• Step 7

  When the sponges are completely cool, spread a thick layer of the buttercream on one of the sponges and a thick layer of your favourite jam on the other sponge.

• Step 8

  Carefully sandwich the two sponges together with the butter cream and jam fillings in the centre.

• Step 9

  Sieve over some icing sugar as a finishing touch. Cut yourself a slice and dig in!