Old school cake

A true British classic. My take on the popular old-fashioned School Cake. This simple, fluffy vanilla traybake is topped with icing and lots of colourful sprinkles!

Vanilla sponge traybake with icing is a school dinners pudding loved by many. Plus, this old school cake recipe is so easy and quick to make.

Manchester Cake Artist on Instagram: “Old school cake 🧁 Something a little different but I actually love it 😍 Old school cake with a Meg bakes twist 🤩”

A delicious, old school vanilla cake recipe with white icing and sprinkles. Simple, delicious!

I made this cake the first time as part of fulfilling my promise to make all the cakes which feature in my first novel, Art and Soul which is out now! If you like reading uplifting contemporary rom…

What is School Cake? It’s a basic vanilla sponge cake recipe with water icing and sprinkles. We have sometimes seen it sliced in two horizontally with jam in the middle, but mostly it’s just as is! It often came served with custard too. School Cake has a few different names. Sometimes it’s called Old School Cake, Retro School Cake, School Dinner Cake, School Cake Traybake, sometimes literally Sponge Cake with Sprinkles, Sprinkle Sponge, or Sprinkle Cake. Whatever you call it, it's simple…

Back to basic baking....simple old school sponge cake! Thanks to my friend for sharing her recipe. She used to blog too but a pity she had ceased to do so. She's a really talented home baker/cook and I learnt a lot from her too! I really love this sponge cake which is moist and tender, goes very well with the silky swiss meringue buttercream. Being too ambitious I've baked three flavours sponge cake, plain, chocolate and strawberry. They are so so pretty after decorating! 3 flavours basic…

Throwback to your childhood with these retro favourites, perfect for a bake sale or afternoon tea. From old school sponges and traybakes to fruity roulades.

Take a trip down memory lane to our favourite cakes from the local bakery. This old-school birthday cake will feed the entire family and bring back lots of memories.