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Victoria Sponge

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Victoria Sponge - Cream the butter and the sugar together in a bowl until pale and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, a little. Find more cake recipes at BBC Good Food. The perfect party cake, a Victoria sponge is a traditional bake everyone will love. 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 Sponge

Andrew Scrivani for The New York Times This traditional British layer cake is made up of two buttery, tender spongecake rounds that sandwich a thick layer of jam and, often, a dollop of.

Whether you're making this cake for the first time, or looking to perfect your baking technique, a basic (but brilliant) Victoria sponge is a must-have cake recipe to add to your baking repertoire.

You can cook Victoria Sponge using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients make Victoria Sponge

  1. Prepare 8 oz caster sugar.
  2. Prepare 8 oz self raising flour.
  3. You need 8 oz soft margerine.
  4. Prepare 4 eggs.
  5. You need Splash vanilla essence.
  6. You need 4 oz butter.
  7. It's 10 oz icing sugar.
  8. It's Strawberry/raspberry jam.

Victoria Sponge instructions

  1. Mix flour, eggs, sugar and butter with a whisk until well mixed..
  2. Add a splash of vanilla.
  3. Heat oven to 180 and cook for 25 minutes or until the top springs back/knife is clean.
  4. Once cooled, mixed icing sugar and butter into a mix. Should be able to smooth about.
  5. Spread butter cream on one half of the sponge and jam on the other, place together. Sprinkle with icing sugar if you wish..

Victoria Sponge - Serve dusted with sifted confectioners' sugar. Sponge cake is a light cake made with eggs, flour and sugar, sometimes leavened with baking powder. Sponge cakes, leavened with beaten eggs, originated during the Renaissance, possibly in Spain. The sponge cake is thought to be one of the first of the non-yeasted cakes, and the earliest attested sponge cake recipe in English is found in a book by the English poet Gervase Markham, The English. I've seen Victoria Sponge Cake in many variations - filled with raspberry or strawberry jam, whipped cream, buttercream, and sometimes even with fresh fruit added. Years ago, when I first posted this recipe, I got some backlash for using buttercream instead of fresh whipped cream. The Victoria Sponge was named after Queen Victoria, as reputedly it was her favorite cake. Thank you and good luck