Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, victoria sponge cake. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mary Berry's easy Victoria sponge cake recipe is a baking classic and a tasty tea-time treat. Bake a classic Victoria sponge cake with this easy recipe, perfect for everyday baking and occasions. Find more cake recipes at BBC Good Food.
Victoria Sponge Cake is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Victoria Sponge Cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook victoria sponge cake using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Victoria Sponge Cake:
- Get For the Cake
- Take 6 oz Self Raising Flour, sifted
- Get 6 oz Caster Sugar
- Make ready 6 oz Unsalted Butter, room temperature
- Get 3 Eggs
- Take 1 tsp Baking Powder
- Make ready 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
- Take For the Buttercream
- Take 3 oz Unsalted Butter, room temperature
- Take 6 oz Icing Sugar, sifted
- Prepare For Serving
- Make ready Enough strawberries halved to cover the cake and for decorating
Victoria Sponges are generally filled with jam, and are. 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. The Victoria Sponge Cake was named after Queen Victoria.
Steps to make Victoria Sponge Cake:
- Sift the flour, baking powder and caster sugar together into a mixing bowl. Add the butter and eggs. Mix everything together until well combined.
- For a Victoria Sponge or vanilla cake add the vanilla essence and combine with the cake mixture.
- Spilt the cake mixture between two greased and lined circular cake baking trays (about 8 inches in diameter). Bake at 180C for 30 minutes or until the sponge bounces back and a skewer in the cake comes out clean.
- Set the cake aside to cool and meanwhile make the buttercream by combining the butter and icing sugar. I often find a table spoon of milk helps to begin the icing sugar and butter mixing.
- Beat the buttercream until light and fluffy with all the ingredients combined. (To make a different flavour buttercream add flavourings after making the basic mix.)
- Slice the strawberries. Once the cake is cool spread half the buttercream on the top of one cake half. Then layer the strawberries so they cover the buttercream. Then sandwich the buttercream and strawberries between the cake halves. Spread the remaining half of the buttercream on top of the cake and decorate with strawberries.
- For different flavour cakes and buttercream: add different flavourings after making the basic cake mix and combining and the same for buttercream. Add the flavourings after making the basic buttercream and combine.
- For a lemon and poppy seed cake. Add the zest and juice of 3/4 of a lemon and about 50g poppy seeds. Make a lemon buttercream by adding the remaining zest and juice to a basic buttercream.
- For a chocolate cake add 2 tablespoons of coca powder to the basic cake mix and the basic buttercream.
- For coffee and walnut cake make an espresso and add to the basic cake mix. I also add chopped walnuts to mine and mix the ingredients well. To make a coffee buttercream add an expresso to the basic buttercream, you might find you need to add some extra icing sugar to soak up the expresso. This is fine and will not change the taste.
Queen Victoria would have tea with bread and butter around four o'clock since dinner was served later in the evening. This traditional sponge cake uses an all in one method making it a super quick and easy family cake, perfect for parties. Before the Victoria sponge, British sponge cakes were leavened only by eggs hand-whisked with sugar until foamy and thick. If you made the Victoria sponge with whipped cream, use it the same day you assemble it since the whipped cream won't To learn how to make buttercream for your Victoria sponge cake, scroll down! Looking for a beautiful cake for a birthday or special occasion?
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