Victoria sponge. Nothing beats a classic Victoria sponge and a cup of tea. Our easy Victoria sponge recipes show you how to achieve the perfect cake with a myriad of fillings from buttercream to fresh fruit. Serve a classic Victoria sponge cake at your next afternoon tea or bake sale.
You can have Victoria sponge using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Victoria sponge
- You need 6 oz of butter or margarine.
- It’s 6 oz of caster sugar.
- It’s 3 of eggs.
- Prepare 6 oz of self raising flour.
- You need 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
- Prepare 120 ml of double cream.
- Prepare 20 g of icing sugar.
- You need of Strawberry or raspberry jam.
- Prepare of Strawberries.
- Prepare of Icing sugar for dusting.
The perfect party cake, a Victoria sponge is a traditional bake everyone will love. The Victoria sponge cake was named after Queen Victoria, who favoured a slice of the sponge cake with her afternoon tea. It is often referred to simply as sponge cake, though it contains additional fat. A traditional Victoria sponge consists of jam sandwiched between two sponge cakes.
Victoria sponge step by step
Pre heat your oven to 180⁰/gas mark 5. Start by mixing the butter and sugar together until combined..
Add the eggs in and mix..
Add the flour and stir together until smooth..
Add the vanilla extract..
Grease your cake tins, use baking paper or butter..
Add half of mixture into each tin and make sure they are both even..
To check if its ready, put a knife in the cakes and if it comes out clean then it's ready and if it comes out with mixture on then leave for a few more minutes..
When the cakes come out leave to cool slightly and then take them out of the tins and put on a cooling rack..
Whip the cream in a bowl until soft peaks form, add the icing sugar and stir in..
When cakes are cooled, spread some jam over the bottom layer of the cake. Pipe the cream on top of the jam and and when that layer is covered add other layer on top..
Pipe cream on top of the cake around the edge. Add the strawberries and dust the icing sugar on top..
This easy Victoria sponge recipe creates a soft vanilla-infused sponge cake sandwiched together with a light buttercream and jam filling. Great for parties, birthdays or a big cup of afternoon tea. 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. This Victoria sponge cake recipe combines strawberries and cream and is the perfect easy bake for afternoon tea.
