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 ...

Garten said she was first inspired by a "fabulous caterer" friend who told her that his easiest recipe was a cake of whipped cream and Nabisco chocolate wafers layered together. "I thought it was ...