Classic Victoria Sponge Cake
Classic Victoria Sponge Cake

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, classic victoria sponge cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Classic Victoria Sponge Cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Classic Victoria Sponge Cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must 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. Get For the Cake
  2. Make ready 4 large Eggs
  3. Take 250 grams Soft Butter (can be salted or unsalted)
  4. Make ready 250 grams Self Raising Flour
  5. Make ready 250 grams Caster Sugar
  6. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence
  7. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
  8. Make ready 2 tbsp Milk
  9. Prepare For the filling
  10. Get 100 grams Soft Butter (can be salted or unsalted)
  11. Make ready 140 grams Icing Sugar
  12. Make ready 1 tsp Vanilla Essense
  13. Prepare Strawberry/Raspberry Jam
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!

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