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Leave the eggs at room temperature.
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Put the milk and butter in a sauce pan over a bain marie to melt the butter.
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Pre-heat the oven to 170C.
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Put the eggs and sugar in a large bowl and beat with hand mixer at high speed.
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Beat until fluffy.
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It takes about 5 minutes!
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Stir the mixture with hand mixer at a low speed while moving the mixer around to make the mixture smooth and even.
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About 2 rotations.
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You will have a very creamy mixture.
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Add the flour, lift up the mixture from the bottom to the surface with your hand mixer and drop the mixture from the mixer along the edge of the bowl.
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Stir the mixture rhythmically until evenly combined.
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Drizzle the milk and butter mixture over and stir with a rubber spatula.
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Lift up the mixture from the bottom to the surface evenly.
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Do not damage the voluminous airness of the mixture.
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Pour the batter into the pan and give a sharp tap to get rid of excess air.
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Bake in the oven for 25 to 30 minutes.
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After it's baked, rap it against your working counter by dropping the pan from above to avoid shrinkage of the sponge.
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Place the cake pan upside down on a cooling rack and remove the pan.
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After cooled, flip over and gently cover with cling film.
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Allow to cool completely.
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This is our 2009 Christmas cake decorated with strawberries.
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This cake had 3 layers inside!
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Here's the cake I made for my son's tenth birthday in 2010.
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In 2011 for my son's 11th birthday, I decorated the sponge with matcha-flavoured cream.
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I made a checkered pattern with plain and matcha sponge cake.
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This is a slice of the cake.
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This is what I made in 2012 for my son's 12th birthday.
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I mixed matcha into the batter for a matcha cake.
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In 2012 for my daughter's 4th birthday.
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I made a strawberry short cake.
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Here's what it looked like inside.
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Here's the Christmas cake from 2012.
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I asked my children to decorate the cake.
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This was decorated by my 3 children.
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It was the best melt-in-your-mouth cake.
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In 2012 for my second son and husband's joint birthday.
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I changed some of the flour to cocoa powder and made a chocolate sponge cake.
