Classic Victoria Sponge Cake
Classic Victoria Sponge Cake

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Classic Victoria Sponge Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Classic Victoria Sponge Cake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

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. The Victoria Sponge was named after Queen Victoria, as reputedly it was her favorite cake. 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.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have classic victoria sponge cake using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Classic Victoria Sponge Cake:
  1. Make ready For the Cake
  2. Make ready 4 large Eggs
  3. Get 250 grams Soft Butter (can be salted or unsalted)
  4. Take 250 grams Self Raising Flour
  5. Get 250 grams Caster Sugar
  6. Get 1 1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence
  7. Take 1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
  8. Make ready 2 tbsp Milk
  9. Make ready For the filling
  10. Prepare 100 grams Soft Butter (can be salted or unsalted)
  11. Make ready 140 grams Icing Sugar
  12. Prepare 1 tsp Vanilla Essense
  13. Prepare Strawberry/Raspberry Jam

When I made this cake, even my little sis compared it to a toast sandwich. 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. Mary Berry's easy Victoria sponge cake recipe is a baking classic and a tasty tea-time treat.

Steps to make Classic Victoria Sponge Cake:
  1. Preheat the oven to 170°C (fan) and line two 7 inch cake tins
  2. Add the softened butter into a large mixing bowl and with a hand mixer or a spoon, cream until light. Then add the caster sugar and cream them both together until they are fluffy.
  3. In a separate jug or bowl beat the eggs until they are fully mixed. Then in small amounts slowly add them to the butter and sugar keeping the mixer or spoon moving.
  4. Once the ingredients have been mixed together, sift in the flour, and mix it well into the other ingredients.
  5. Next add the vanilla, baking powder and milk. Mixing them in as well.
  6. Once you are sure the mix has been fully blended together and no lumps are present you can start to spoon the batter evenly into the cake tins.
  7. Put the tins on the top shelf of your oven and cook for 25-35 minutes
  8. While they are cooking prepare the butter icing
  9. Add the soft butter and icing sugar into a mixing bowl and mix by hand or with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Then add vanilla extract to taste and mix again.
  10. Once the cake has been taken out of the oven and cooled on a wire rack, you can start to spread the icing and jam over the sponges and sandwich them together.
  11. Dust the cake with a sprinkle of icing sugar and enjoy!

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. Mary Berry's easy Victoria sponge cake recipe is a baking classic and a tasty tea-time treat. 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. This Victoria sandwich recipe by Mary Barry is.

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