Cream the sugar and butter and set the oven to 160 degrees c.

Add in the eggs and beat or mix until smooth.

Sift in the flour.

Divide into individual cake cases.

Bake for 15 - 20 minutes, or until a skewer tester comes out clean.

Turn out cakes and leave them to cools lightly before splitting them in half across the centre to give two cake halves.

Mix butter and icing to make the buttercream icing.

Spread the buttercream icing and jam on individual cake halves and then put them together and finish with a dusting of icing sugar.