Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, classic victoria sponge cake. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
The warmer months are on the way so it's time to dust off all those sweet, summery recipes! My take on the classic Victoria. The classic Victoria sponge cake is always a winner.
Classic Victoria Sponge Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Classic Victoria Sponge Cake is something which I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have classic victoria sponge cake using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Classic Victoria Sponge Cake:
- Get For the Cake
- Take 4 large Eggs
- Get 250 grams Soft Butter (can be salted or unsalted)
- Take 250 grams Self Raising Flour
- Take 250 grams Caster Sugar
- Prepare 1 1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence
- Make ready 1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
- Get 2 tbsp Milk
- Prepare For the filling
- Prepare 100 grams Soft Butter (can be salted or unsalted)
- Take 140 grams Icing Sugar
- Take 1 tsp Vanilla Essense
- Prepare Strawberry/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.
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!
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. This Victoria sponge is a British classic and delicious afternoon teatime treat, combining strawberries and cream. Divide the mixture evenly between the tins and level with a knife.
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