Pinkie Pie checked her table once more to make sure she had all of the ingredients for Granny Smith's birthday cake, which she insisted be a simple Victoria sandwich. She had four eggs from Fluttershy's chickens, two hundred and twenty grams of self-raising flour, a little over two teaspoons of baking powder, two hundred and twenty five grams of soft butter and two hundred and twenty five grams of caster sugar, all of which the Cakes had been kind enough to let her have from the leftover stock that needed to be used for tax purposes. She also had some raspberry jam and whipped double cream which she had bought from the local store.

She preheated the oven to gas mark four. She then greased two twenty centimetre sandwich tins, using a piece of baking paper to rub the butter around the inside of the tins to make sure that her hooves didn't get too messy. Then she lined the bottom of the tins with baking paper.

After this, she grabbed a large mixing bowl and broke the eggs into it. She then quickly added the sugar, flour, baking powder and baking spread to it. She mixed everything together until it was all well combined, being careful not to over mix the ingrediants. She then added the mixture to the tins, dividing it evenly between them. She placed the tins on the middle shelf of the oven and baked them for 25 minutes.

When the cakes were done, Pinkie removed them from the oven and set them aside to cool for five minutes. She then carefully moved the cakes out onto a cooling rack.

To assemble the cake, She placed one cake upside down onto a plate and spread plenty of jam onto it. She then spread over the whipped cream. She then carefully put the second cake on top, sprinkling caster sugar over the top. She felt like this was not a real accomplishment, then realised that really, in the giant void which we call a universe, nothing is.

Author's Note

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/mary_berrys_perfect_34317