Now it's no secret how much I LOVE lipsticks and especially the matte / velvet matte kind. So you can imagine my delight at spotting that Primark now have a range of both matte liquid lipsticks AND velvet matte lip crayons. I picked up my first one a few weeks ago which was Hustle, a 90s tone brownie nude which I loved and it felt so amazing on my lips. I couldn't wait to go back with more birthday money and pick up a load more.

Probably my all time favourite cake is a Victoria Sponge, Timeless and Classic yet so simple to bake! As you may know I've gotten really into baking recently so I just knew I had to attempt my favourite sponge as soon as possible. I never knew how easy this cake was to bake so I think you'll be pleasantly surprised and pleased with how quick and simple my recipe is. 

The first thing you want to do is weight your 3 large eggs in their shells and whatever they weigh, you will then need to weight out the same amount of your butter, self raising flower and caster sugar. I only used 2 eggs for my first attempt but they weighed 138g so I had to weight out 138g of butter, self raising flower and caster sugar. 

I start by mixing with my electric hand mixer the sugar and butter on their own until they are light and fluffy. I then sift into my bowl the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder so that there is air within all the ingredients. I mix this all together until it is a nice batter consistency. 

Once that is all mixed well but not too over mixed as I didn't want it to become to dense I added the 2 eggs, 2 tbs of milk and 1tsp of Vanilla Extract to my bowl and mixed that again just to loosen the batter a little and add some more flavour to the mixture. 

When I was happy with the consistency and it looked as pictured above, I then put all of my cake batter into a 20cm loose base non stick cake tin. Most people tend to use 2 cake tins but as I only have a small halogen oven I didn't want to take ages baking so I baked the whole cake as one instead of two parts. 

I baked my cake in my oven at 180 degrees for 30 minutes, then covered it with baking foil and baked it again for a further 15 minutes as the middle of my cake was still not baked but I didn't want my halogen oven to burn the cake. 

Whilst my cake was baking, I made the butter cream filling. For this I used 100g of Unsalted butter softened and beat it on its own with the electric mixer until it had lost most of its colour and was fluffy. 

I then mixed in the 200g of icing sugar. This is were the butter cream doesn't look correct at all and I panicked a little as it hadn't come together and looked more like a crumb base than butter cream.

I then added 2TBSP of milk and mixed it again. This is where the magic happens and the soft perfect butter cream emerges. As I only used 100g of butter for this butter cream it did taste a little over sugary so I then added 2tsp of Vanilla extract and it tasted amazing! 

I then forgot to photograph the next steps but once my cake had fully cooled down out of the oven, I just carefully used my wire cake cutter and sliced my cake in half. I started applying a nice even layer of the butter cream to the bottom layer of my cake and then I applied the jam to the underside of the top layer and sandwiched them together. 

Finishing the cake with a light dusting of icing sugar, it was ready to be enjoyed and that we did! It was light and spongy yet not dry or crumbly. Craig said it was the best cake he has had in ages and we do buy a lot of cake so that was an incredible bit of feedback. I know he may have been a tad biased but I do ask for him to be honest with his opinion so that I can improve on the not to perfect parts but he said it was pretty perfect which I'm overjoyed with. 

The cake could have been a lot thicker and taller in height if I had used two cake tins and 3 eggs not 2 but this was my first attempt, a trial run if you like for when I have the full ingredients and equipment. I cannot wait to make this again soon and incorporate real strawberries to the filling and on top for decoration.

What do you think? Whats your favourite type of cake, let me know in the comments! 

I've never filmed a Q & A video before so I have decided to give it a go as I love watching everyone else's Q&A's! I'm going to be filming this #AskSophie video as soon as I've got enough questions so if you'd like to leave a question in the comments below, over on my Instagram picture or tweet me @sophiejenner feel free to do so! I can't wait to answer all of your questions and I hope your all having a fantastic weekend!

Thanks in advance for your questions :)

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The Questions -

1. Favourite TV show?

2. Favourite Toy?

3. Favourite Commercial ?

4. NSync or Backstreet Boys?

5. Weirdest Fashion Trend?

6. Favourite Collectables ?

7. Favourite Beanie Baby ?

8. How many Tamagotchi's did you go through?

9. Favourite Game Console + Game?

10. Favourite Disney Channel Original Movie?

11. Favourite Music Artist?

12. Favourite Nick Jr. show?

13. Favourite Candy?

14. Favourite Game (Board game, School game, etc.)?

15. Favourite McDonald's Happy Meal Toy?

16. Favorite Book?

17. Favorite Clothing Store?

18. What would you watch when you'd get home from school?

I tag...

Stephanie Eva - http://bit.ly/1wovrqg

Rudy - http://bit.ly/1znf0qw

Alice - http://bit.ly/1sPXpG2

Eleanor - http://bit.ly/1znf61m

Yoana - http://bit.ly/U8yAJf

Lowran - http://bit.ly/1kSgGRR

Jennifer - http://bit.ly/1BRHKf4

Makenta - http://bit.ly/1pVEEBJ

Nova - http://bit.ly/XJGA66

AND YOU!!! Yes YOU, Watching this video :) !!! x 

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Hope you all having a fantastic bank holiday weekend!!!

I cant believe I've never filmed an Empties video before. I use up so many products so I will be sure to film regular empties and remember to keep the products once they are gone as I always forget and throw them in the bin hehe. I love watching everyone else's Empties videos as you get to see if they would repurchase or if they hated a product and its like mini reviews in one short video so super easy to watch and film. I hope you like the video...

I've worn this make up look a few times in the last few weeks as its so quick, easy to do and is a nice little change from my everyday makeup. Its only a simple cat eye with a either a lilac /pink lip, a bold plum lip or a bright red lip. I love this look with all three lipsticks as they are great for different occasions but let me know in the comments which lipstick you preferred with this look?

Here is my first Halloween tutorial for you! I chose to do a corpse bride inspired makeup look as that is one of my favourite halloween films and I knew that the Beauty UK products that I recently received would be perfect for this look. I hope you enjoy the tutorial and all links to products used are below.

I hope you are all having a great start to July! I cannot believe its July already! This year as always is flying by so fast and it feels like we have had no summer here in Wales at all yet!

I just wanted to ask if any of my followers would be interested in some Weight Watchers Posts as I have been doing Weight Watchers now for 13 weeks, wooohoo! I didn't ever think  I would stick to it for this long as its my first ever 'Diet'. I think the only reason I have stuck to WW is that its not really a diet its more of a lifestyle change for me. When I decided to start WW , I really didn't think I would loose any weight as I wasn't familiar with the whole WW system and was so stuck in a rut with my weight. I didn't feel comfortable in any of my clothes anymore and was hiding my weight under my coat as it was winter but on a boiling hot day in April the thought of summer made me decide I had to do something to loose weight. 

So after seeing my friend Laura loose a lot of weight doing weight watchers and me being amazed by it ,she kindly told me everything I needed to know about weight watchers and lent me all her books from her weekly meetings. Craig helped me loads to get started as well as I was stuck on how to work out the points in certain foods and the weight of my portions. He encouraged me to start weight watchers as it was the only diet his mum had done and lost a lot of weight on so he thought it would be a good way for me to loose weight. I really couldn't have done weight watchers with out Craig and Laura helping me get started as I was clueless and rubbish at working out points and the maths behind it all lol! 

So my plan was after the grand national weekend ( April 5th) to start on the Monday (April 8th) , well long story short we got locked inside my dads house with no keys for 2.5 hours and once we were out I caved and ate crisps and a cream doughnut so Instead of setting off on the wrong foot, I decided to start the next day, So Tuesday 9th April. So since then I have been having 26 weight watchers points a day along with my 49 extra weekly points when I need them. Most people save their 49's for drink on a weekend or a treat night but as I don't drink I have just been having a few of my 49's most days and being left at the end of the week with some 49's left over, which is good!  My weigh night is 7pm Tuesday every week with Craig as my adjudicator. 

As the weeks go on though if I want to reach my ultimate weight loss goal I will have to cut off my 49 extra points and only eat 26 a day which will be fine as I do treat myself daily at the moment to a little something for a few of my 49 points :)

I wasn't going to make a weight watchers post until I had lost some weight, so now that I have lost over a stone and I'm still going towards my weight goal , I would love to share my weight watchers experience with you all. So let me know if you would like some more weight watchers posts and updates and If it would help you at all and I will get posting! 

I hope you like this post!

Thank you for reading! 

Sophie

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