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 cook Victoria Sponge using 8 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Victoria Sponge
- It’s 8 oz of caster sugar.
- Prepare 8 oz of self raising flour.
- You need 8 oz of soft margerine.
- Prepare 4 of eggs.
- You need Splash of vanilla essence.
- You need 4 oz of butter.
- It’s 10 oz of icing sugar.
- Prepare of Strawberry/raspberry jam.
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
Mix flour, eggs, sugar and butter with a whisk until well mixed..
Add a splash of vanilla.
Heat oven to 180 and cook for 25 minutes or until the top springs back/knife is clean.
Once cooled, mixed icing sugar and butter into a mix. Should be able to smooth about.
Spread butter cream on one half of the sponge and jam on the other, place together. Sprinkle with icing sugar if you wish..
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.
