Victoria Sponge Cake

Steps Making Recipes Victoria Sponge Cake using 12 ingredients and 10 steps

Victoria Sponge Cake - A Victoria Sponge was the favorite sponge cake of Queen Victoria, and has since become a tried-and-true recipe for tea-time sponge cakes. Victoria Sponges are generally filled with jam, and are undecorated on the top, but you can serve each piece with a dollop of whipped cream, or shake some powdered sugar over the top if you'd like. Probably the most iconic British cake, a good Victoria sponge should be well-risen, moist, and as light as air. Serve dusted with sifted confectioners' sugar. In a medium bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder and salt.

Anna, the Duchess of Bedford, who has been given credit for introducing the charming art of the afternoon tea was a lady in waiting to the queen who quickly adopted the custom of serving sponge cakes as part of the tea.

The Victoria Sponge was named after Queen Victoria, who regularly ate a slice of sponge cake with her tea, each afternoon!

You can cook Victoria Sponge Cake using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients make Victoria Sponge Cake

1. Prepare For the Cake.
2. It's 6 oz Self Raising Flour, sifted.
3. It's 6 oz Caster Sugar.
4. It's 6 oz Unsalted Butter, room temperature.
5. You need 3 Eggs.
6. It's 1 tsp Baking Powder.
7. You need 1 tsp Vanilla Essence.
8. It's For the Buttercream.
9. It's 3 oz Unsalted Butter, room temperature.
10. Prepare 6 oz Icing Sugar, sifted.
11. Prepare For Serving.
12. Prepare Enough strawberries halved to cover the cake and for decorating.

Victoria Sponge Cake step by step

1. Sift the flour, baking powder and caster sugar together into a mixing bowl. Add the butter and eggs. Mix everything together until well combined..
2. For a Victoria Sponge or vanilla cake add the vanilla essence and combine with the cake mixture..
3. Spilt the cake mixture between two greased and lined circular cake baking trays (about 8 inches in diameter). Bake at 180C for 30 minutes or until the sponge bounces back and a skewer in the cake comes out clean..
4. Set the cake aside to cool and meanwhile make the buttercream by combining the butter and icing sugar. I often find a table spoon of milk helps to begin the icing sugar and butter mixing..
5. Beat the buttercream until light and fluffy with all the ingredients combined. (To make a different flavour buttercream add flavourings after making the basic mix.).
6. Slice the strawberries. Once the cake is cool spread half the buttercream on the top of one cake half. Then layer the strawberries so they cover the buttercream. Then sandwich the buttercream and strawberries between the cake halves. Spread the remaining half of the buttercream on top of the cake and decorate with strawberries..
7. For different flavour cakes and buttercream: add different flavourings after making the basic cake mix and combining and the same for buttercream. Add the flavourings after making the basic buttercream and combine..
8. For a lemon and poppy seed cake. Add the zest and juice of 3/4 of a lemon and about 50g poppy seeds. Make a lemon buttercream by adding the remaining zest and juice to a basic buttercream..
9. For a chocolate cake add 2 tablespoons of coca powder to the basic cake mix and the basic buttercream..
10. For coffee and walnut cake make an espresso and add to the basic cake mix. I also add chopped walnuts to mine and mix the ingredients well. To make a coffee buttercream add an expresso to the basic buttercream, you might find you need to add some extra icing sugar to soak up the expresso. This is fine and will not change the taste..

Victoria Sponge Cake - I fell in love with Victoria Sponge on my first trip to England. From the first time I saw this moist, yet fluffy vanilla sponge cake filled with cream and jam, I knew it was love. Find more cake recipes at BBC Good Food. The perfect party cake, a Victoria sponge is a traditional bake everyone will love. Cream the butter and the sugar together in a bowl until pale and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, a little. For the final technical challenge Mary Berry asked the bakers to make this simple sponge with homemade jam and buttercream - without a recipe. Thank you and good luck