Preheat your oven to 180 degrees Celsius.grease and line your tin with baking paper.atleast a 1 kg tin.put all your ingredients together.Make sure the eggs are at room temperature.separate the egg whites and the egg yolks
Whisk the egg whites time soft peaks form
Add vanilla to the egg yolks and add them one by one.as you whisk
Next add the sugar in batches as you whisk till fully incorporated
Next sift in the flour and baking powder in batches as you fold in
Pour the batter in your tin and bake for 40 minutes
Remove from tin,wait till cool to slice into 3 layers.as you wait for the cake to cool boil the water and sugar till it dissolves wait for it to cool then add rum.apply the syrup on the cake with pastry brush or spray can
Whip the cream till soft peaks form.cut the strawberries in half.assemble the cake.put the whip cream then strawberries
You can also make ganache see my previous record
