School cake recipe

This traditional school dinner cake is one that many of us remember fondly! A vanilla sponge with royal icing and sprinkles, follow this easy recipe for a little childhood throwback!

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…

Vanilla traybake (School cake) - Cooking with my kids

If you're feeling nostalgic, this old school cake recipe is ideal. Smothered in icing & sprinkles, it's best served as a pudding with custard.

A simple recipe for old school sponge cake with white icing and multi-coloured sugar sprinkles. Delicious sponge like they used to serve in the school canteen. Quick and easy to make at home!

Chocolate School Cake! - Jane's Patisserie

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

A take on the classic vanilla sprinkle cake served up in British primary schools. This is an easy recipe that makes plenty of slices, so it's ideal for parties.

Take a trip back in time with this retro school cake! Vanilla sponge is topped with icing and sprinkles to make this traybake that will bring back childhood memories and the highlight of the week in primary school lunch terms.

Fluffy sponge cake smothered in jam and sprinkled with desiccated coconut: a classic from the old school canteen. Custard optional! Another old school classic I’ve been meaning to make for ag…

Serve up some nostalgia with this old School Cake, which is simply a fluffy vanilla sponge covered in icing and hundreds of sprinkles! Enjoy it alone or with hot custard, like the good old days.

Jam and Coconut Sponge is a simple sponge cake, with jam spread over the top and a generous sprinkle of desiccated coconut added to top it all off. Serve with a big jug of custard (pink custard even!) and you’ll be sure to invoke memories in anyone who went to school here a while back! Coconut and Jam Sponge is an easy bake to make, and it serves plenty if it’s made as a traybake. It can be served cold or warmed up, and with or without custard, so it’s a great option for feeding plenty for…

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.

School Dinner Jam & Coconut Traybake Cake

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If you're from the UK you might remember this chocolate cake from school that used to be served with chocolate custard.....I do not. I don't remember this....

School dinner Cake - Something Sweet Something Savoury