Happy St Patrick’s Day – Have some cake! (and possibly some Guinness to wash it down with!)How will you be celebrating or do you not bother? I’ll be going to a cookery demonstration tonight with WI pals and maybe persuaded to pop into a local pub afterwards.
I made this cake yesterday and there’s still plenty left. Its not a particularly irish recipe in that its a vanilla sponge cake but I have given a nod to the Emerald Isle with green frosting and a sprinkle shamrock on the top.
Doesn’t stop it tasting gorgeous though and somehow it seems to last longer than other vanilla cakes. I swore I would never share my vanilla cake recipes but quite honestly, its easier for me knowing where they are, when I need to make one. So go for your life …bake and enjoy!
Costello Vanilla Sponge Cake
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Happy Baking!
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What a fantastic looking cake. # recipeoftheweek
Thanks Julie! Sadly it has all now gone – need an excuse to make another! X
Your cake looks beautiful and soft inside. I don’t bake every week but I’ve just linked up my fruit scones.
Ooh thanks for joining in. Can’t beat a lovely scone – I think they are my new ‘thing’ x
Corinna, I can’t find your scones – could you please link them up to the linky below? It might have been broken when you tried to list them. Thanks x
This cake looks stunning!!! I can never get a vanilla sponge just right so might be trying your recipe out soon.
Oh hope it works out – let me know how you get on! Good luck x
Looks great! I’m going to try and join in with this Linky – my baking needs some improvement!
I’m here to help, Karen! I’m also here to test any of your creations!
That looks really scrummy – bet it was gone in a flash!
Oh yes! Happily I’m making another at the weekend 😉
Wow this looks delicious. I shouldn’t have read this post before breakfast. Now I just want cake and coffee instead. Thank you so much for sharing I will definitely have to try this out. #sharefriday
Nothing wrong with cake and coffee for breakfast, Jenny. Doesn’t everyone have that? We can pretend we are continental 😉
I do love a good cake! We don’t have an electric mixer which really does make baking quite tricky!
ooh yummy and all that egg yolk for scrambled eggs 🙂
We are now the masters at finding different combinations of scrambled eggs! Sweet & sour sauce on them is my fave x
Oooh vanilla cake is my fave 🙂 will defs be giving this a go and I’m sure the little ones will love the coloured frosting! Cant wait for this linky x
wow Helen that cake is amazeballs I will definitely be joining in on bake of the week. The I love the icing on the St Patrick’s Day one. You are one talented lady 😉
Oh you are too kind! Feel free to join in every week – baking is the new going out! 🙂
Once again this looks amazing. And as an American I can use a good vanilla sponge recipe – my husband loves it!
Hope he likes this one, Erin! I always think of this recipe as my ‘American’ sponge cake recipe though – no idea why, it just reminds me of American based desserts I’ve had.
Mmmm this looks so yummy! I have put a reminder on to link up next week 🙂 x
And you did! Thank you lovely x
I keep seeing all these cooking things and think I should really give it another go…I might- but probably not! Looks gorgeous though. I will send on to my mum and then allow her to bake it for us! 🙂
oooh now that looks delicious! We don’t celebrate St Patrick’s day but we do celebrate the fact that we became a couple on that day (13 years ago now!) and it was randomly at Pippa (Red Rose Mummy)’s other half’s birthday party!
x x
What a great looking cake. I love a vanilla sponge xx
I can practically taste it, your cake looks delicious and so simple to make. At least it looks simple when you do it! I haven’t baked a cake for ages, feeling tempted! #sharefriday
ooo yummy!!! we celebrated welcoming my new niece being born! 🙂 xx
Lovely cake! I hope to join up with you baking linky as soon as I find time to bake some more! x
What a tasty looking cake. So seasonal and it looks really moist inside.
Oh that looks pretty, and very tempting too! Thank you so much for taking the time to link up to this months Tea Time Treats!
Janie x
HUGE and yummy looking 🙂 Thanks so much for linking up with #recipeoftheweek. I’ve pinned and tweeted this post and hope to see you linking up again soon! 😀 x