Method
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4.
Grease and line 2 x 20cm/8in sandwich tins: use a bit of baking or silicone paper to rub just a little baking spread or butter around within the tins before the sides and base are gently coated. Line the foot of the tins having a circle of baking or silicone paper (to get this done, draw around the bottom of the tin to the paper and eliminate).
Break the eggs right into a large mixing bowl, adding the sugar, flour, baking powder and baking spread.
Mix everything together until well combined. The simplest way to get this done is by using an electrical hands mixer, but use a wooden spoon. Place a moist cloth beneath your bowl when you’re mixing to prevent it getting around. Take care not to over-mix – when things are blended you need to stop. The finished mixture ought to be of the soft ‘dropping’ consistency – it ought to disappear a spoon easily.
Divide the mix evenly between your tins: this doesn’t have to be exact, however, you can weigh the filled tins if you wish to check. Make use of a spatula to get rid of all the mixture in the bowl and lightly smooth the top of cakes.
Put the tins around the middle shelf from the oven and bake for twenty five minutes. Don't be enticed to spread out the doorway when they're cooking, but after twenty minutes do examine the doorway to check on them.
The cakes are carried out when they’re golden-brown and coming from the fringe of the tins. Press them lightly to check on – they must be springy to touch. Take them off in the oven and hang aside to awesome within their tins for 5 minutes. Then operate a palette or rounded butter knife round the inside fringe of the tin and thoroughly turn the cakes out onto a cooling rack.
To consider your cakes from the tins without departing a wire rack mark on top, place the clean tea towel within the tin, place your hands to the tea towel and switch the tin upside-lower. The wedding cake may come out on your hands and also the tea towel – you'll be able to transform it out of your hands to the wire rack.
Put aside to awesome completely.
To put together the wedding cake, place one cake upside lower onto a plate and spread it with lots of jam. If you wish to, you are able to spread over whipped cream too.
Top using the second cake, top-side up. Sprinkle within the caster sugar.