Classic Victoria Sponge
Classic Victoria Sponge

Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, classic victoria sponge. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really 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. Bake James Martin's classic Victoria sponge cake, best served with a proper cup of tea.

Classic Victoria Sponge is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look wonderful. Classic Victoria Sponge is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have classic victoria sponge using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Classic Victoria Sponge:
  1. Make ready 225 g soft butter/soft margerine
  2. Prepare 225 g Caster Sugar
  3. Take 225 g Self raising flour
  4. Take 4 Eggs
  5. Make ready 2 teaspoons baking powder
  6. Prepare for the filling
  7. Take Gert dollops of whatever jam you fancy!
  8. Get 140 g soft butter
  9. Take 225 g Icing sugar

Before the Victoria sponge, British sponge cakes were leavened only by eggs hand-whisked with sugar until From afternoon tea to an exuberant birthday cake to the classic Vicky sponge, baking. A British classic, this Victoria sponge is good enough for the Queen herself! Somehow - it tastes even better than it looks! (And we can all agree it looks pretty darn gorgeous). Are you afraid your Victoria sponge will be heavy, or worse, not rise?

Steps to make Classic Victoria Sponge:
  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees and grease 2 x 8" sandwich tins
  2. Put ALL the cake ingredients into a mixing bowl and mix till smooth (either by hand or with a mixer!). Then divide the cake batter evenly between the tins.
  3. Put in the oven and bake for about 25 mins until risen. Remove from the oven and leave to cool for a few minutes before turning out on a wire rack to cool.
  4. Whilst the cakes are cooking/cooling, mix the Icing sugar and butter together until smooth.
  5. When the cakes are cool, spread a good dollop of your chosen jam over one half of the cake. Then spread the buttercream on the other half (saving half for the top if you prefer)
  6. "Sandwich" the two cakes together and there it is, in all its scrumminess 😊❤️

This classic Victoria sponge recipe has a light sponge filled with whipped cream and jam - it's the perfect afternoon treat! Master this Victoria sponge recipe and the baking world is your oyster! A soft vanilla sponge cake filled with strawberry or raspberry jam and buttercream. Perfect at any time of day! Bursting with flavour, the soft caramel notes of the Golden Icing and Golden Caster Sugar make this the queen of sponges.

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