Our easy sponge cake recipe is foolproof. With only five ingredients this basic cake recipe just needs your favourite icing and you're sorted. It's a small sponge cake, made in an 18cm or 7in cake ...

By Melissa Clark Melissa Clark loves to bake vintage cake recipes. My new favorite cake ... refers to the icing — a basic broiled topping, as opposed to the painstaking festoons of buttercream ...