How to Make Perfect Classic Victoria Sponge Cake

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, classic victoria sponge cake. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. 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. Make ready For the Cake
2. Prepare 4 large Eggs
3. Take 250 grams Soft Butter (can be salted or unsalted)
4. Prepare 250 grams Self Raising Flour
5. Make ready 250 grams Caster Sugar
6. Take 1 1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence
7. Get 1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
8. Take 2 tbsp Milk
9. Get For the filling
10. Get 100 grams Soft Butter (can be salted or unsalted)
11. Make ready 140 grams Icing Sugar
12. Get 1 tsp Vanilla Essense
13. Prepare 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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