Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, classic victoria sponge cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Classic Victoria Sponge Cake is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Classic Victoria Sponge Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook classic victoria sponge cake using 12 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Classic Victoria Sponge Cake:
- Take For the sponge
- Get 200 g Caster Sugar
- Prepare 200 g Softened butter
- Prepare 4 eggs, beaten
- Make ready 200 g self-raising flour
- Prepare 1 tsp baking powder
- Take 2 tbsp milk
- Take For the filling
- Make ready 100 g butter, softened
- Get 120 g icing sugar
- Take 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Take 340 g strawberry or raspberry jam
Bake James Martin's classic Victoria sponge cake, best served with a proper cup of tea. Cover with the raspberries and place the other cake on top. 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.
Steps to make Classic Victoria Sponge Cake:
- Heat oven to 190C/170C fan/gas 5. Butter two 20cm sandwich tins and line with baking paper. In a large bowl, beat all the cake ingredients together until you have a smooth, soft batter.
- Divide the mixture between the tins, smooth the surface with a spatula or the back of a spoon then bake for about 20 mins until golden and the cake springs back when pressed. Turn onto a cooling rack and leave to cool completely.
- To make the filling, beat the butter until smooth and cream, then gradually beat in icing sugar and then vanilla extract. Spread the buttercream over the bottom of one of the sponges, top it with the jam and sandwich the second sponge on top. Dust a little icing sugar on top before serving.
Before the Victoria sponge, British sponge cakes were leavened only by eggs hand-whisked with sugar until foamy and thick. From afternoon tea to an exuberant birthday cake to the classic Vicky sponge, baking cake is a national pastime. We teamed up with ex-pat Paola Thomas to bring you five. Classic Victoria sponge cake (Victoria sandwich) - the classic British tea time treat; simple yet elegant, it can't be beaten! This traditional cake is perfect for Birthdays, celebrations or Afternoon tea.
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