2. Lightly butter and line the base of an 18cm/7in cake tin with greaseproof paper.
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3. Cream the butter and sugar until smooth and pale in colour and then gradually beat in the eggs.
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4. Sift the flour and fold into the mixture, a little at a time. Pour into the cake tin, level off the mixture with a palette knife and bake for about 90 minutes or until a skewer inserted into the cake comes out clean.
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suggestion- for a chocolate sponge cake mix in cocoa powder (the kind you put in chocolate milk) in step 4.