Classic Victoria Sponge Cake.
Hey everyone, it's John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we're going to make a special dish, classic victoria sponge cake. One of my favorites. For mine, I'm gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Classic Victoria Sponge Cake is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it's quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Classic Victoria Sponge Cake is something that I've loved my whole life. They're nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook classic victoria sponge cake using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Classic Victoria Sponge Cake:
- {Get of For the Cake.
- {Get of Eggs.
- {Prepare of Soft Butter (can be salted or unsalted).
- {Prepare of Self Raising Flour.
- {Prepare of Caster Sugar.
- {Take of Vanilla Essence.
- {Take of Baking Powder.
- {Get of Milk.
- {Get of For the filling.
- {Get of Soft Butter (can be salted or unsalted).
- {Get of Icing Sugar.
- {Get of Vanilla Essense.
- {Make ready of Strawberry/Raspberry Jam.
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!.
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