Victoria sponge cake
Victoria sponge cake

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, victoria sponge cake. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Buy Sponge Cake Mix at Amazon! 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.

Victoria sponge cake is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Victoria sponge cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook victoria sponge cake using 9 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Victoria sponge cake:
  1. Get Caster sugar
  2. Make ready Butter
  3. Take Large eggs
  4. Prepare Self raising flour
  5. Get Baking powder
  6. Take Milk
  7. Take Icing sugar
  8. Take Vanilla extract
  9. Get Strawberry jam

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! To mark Royal Garden Parties, Buckingham Palace Pastry Chef's are delighted to share this traditional recipe. If you use social media, remember to share your #royalbakes !

Instructions to make Victoria sponge cake:
  1. Preheat oven to 170°c fan
  2. In a large mixing bowl add 200g caster sugar and 200g softened butter. Whisk until pale and fully combined, make sure not to over whisk or the butter can split.
  3. Add 4 eggs to the bowl and whisk until fully combined. Again be careful not to over whisk.
  4. Sift 200g self raising flour and 1 tsp baking powder into the bowl. Gently fold into the mixture until fully combined. Be as gentle as you can and take your time. Air is the key to the cake being fluffy.
  5. Add 2 tbsp of milk and 1 tsp vanilla extract to the bowl and gently fold it into the mixture.
  6. Line two 20cm sandwich tins with greaseproof paper. Gently divide the mixture between the two tins as evenly as you can and smooth out.
  7. Put the tins into the oven and bake for 20 minutes until golden and a skewer or knife comes out clean.
  8. Take the cakes out of the tins and place on a wire cooling rack. Leave to cool completely.
  9. For the buttercream: In a large bowl add 100g softened butter. Sift 140g icing sugar onto the butter. Whisk them together until smooth. Add 1/2 tsp vanilla extract and mix.
  10. Spread the buttercream over one of the cakes. Then spread 170g of strawberry jam on top of the buttercream and sandwich the other cake on top. Dust the top with icing sugar and serve.

Cream the butter and the sugar together in a bowl until pale and fluffy. Beat in the eggs, a little. Treat friends and family to a Victoria sponge cake made with vegan ingredients. Victoria Sponge Cake is a British Classic. I fell in love with Victoria Sponge on my first trip to England.

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