Classic Victoria Sponge Cake
Classic Victoria Sponge Cake

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, classic victoria sponge cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Classic Victoria Sponge Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. Classic Victoria Sponge Cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

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 that.

The ingredients needed to make Classic Victoria Sponge Cake:
  1. Prepare For the Cake
  2. Make ready 4 large Eggs
  3. Get 250 grams Soft Butter (can be salted or unsalted)
  4. Prepare 250 grams Self Raising Flour
  5. Get 250 grams Caster Sugar
  6. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence
  7. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
  8. Take 2 tbsp Milk
  9. Take For the filling
  10. Take 100 grams Soft Butter (can be salted or unsalted)
  11. Make ready 140 grams Icing Sugar
  12. Make ready 1 tsp Vanilla Essense
  13. Get Strawberry/Raspberry Jam
Instructions 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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