Treacle Sponge - cooking recipe

Ingredients

6 tablespoons golden syrup, overloaded and oozing
100 g butter, plus extra for the dish
100 g sugar
2 eggs
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
100 g self-raising flour

Preparation

Butter a 1 litre baking dish, and dollop the syrup in the bottom.
Put the butter and sugar in a food processor and blitz until pale.
Beat in the eggs one by one, then the vanilla.
Add the flour and pulse until just mixed.
Scrape into the dish, on top of the syrup.
Either cover with cling film and microwave on medium for 7 1/2 minutes or bake in the oven at 180C/fan 160C/gas 4 oven for 30 minutes until risen and golden.
Serve with lashings of custard.