Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, classic victoria sponge cake. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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Classic Victoria Sponge Cake is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Classic Victoria Sponge Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook classic victoria sponge cake using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Classic Victoria Sponge Cake:
- Prepare For the Cake
- Get 4 large Eggs
- Get 250 grams Soft Butter (can be salted or unsalted)
- Take 250 grams Self Raising Flour
- Make ready 250 grams Caster Sugar
- Take 1 1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- Get 2 tbsp Milk
- Get For the filling
- Prepare 100 grams Soft Butter (can be salted or unsalted)
- Prepare 140 grams Icing Sugar
- Get 1 tsp Vanilla Essense
- Take Strawberry/Raspberry Jam
This Classic Victoria Sponge Cake recipe uses the classic ingredients of vanilla sponge cake, fresh whipped cream & raspberry jam. When I first started this site, I posted a recipe for Victoria Sponge Cake with Buttercream instead of whipped cream. Whilst this is a wonderful cake, I have never gotten. This Victoria sponge is a British classic and delicious afternoon teatime treat, combining strawberries and cream.
Instructions to make Classic Victoria Sponge Cake:
- Preheat the oven to 170°C (fan) and line two 7 inch cake tins
- 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.
- 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.
- Once the ingredients have been mixed together, sift in the flour, and mix it well into the other ingredients.
- Next add the vanilla, baking powder and milk. Mixing them in as well.
- 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.
- Put the tins on the top shelf of your oven and cook for 25-35 minutes
- While they are cooking prepare the butter icing
- 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.
- 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.
- Dust the cake with a sprinkle of icing sugar and enjoy!
Divide the mixture evenly between the tins and level with a knife. Victoria sponge cake is one of those traditional bakes that everyone's going to love. Fluffy vanilla cake filled with diplomat cream and fresh strawberries! I wanted to make this cake ever since I saw Mary Berry in Great British Bake Off making one. I loved the fact that it is super simple, but so pretty - a real.
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