Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, classic victoria sponge cake. One of my favorites. This time, 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’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Classic Victoria sponge cake is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
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. The classic Victoria sponge cake is always a winner.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook classic victoria sponge cake using 7 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Classic Victoria sponge cake:
- Take 8 oz caster sugar
- Prepare 8 oz butter or stork
- Get 8 oz self raising flour
- Make ready 4 eggs
- Prepare For the icing ontop
- Get 175 g icing sugar
- Get 75 g butter or stork
Bake James Martin's classic Victoria sponge cake, best served with a proper cup of tea. Cover with the raspberries and place the other cake on top. Probably the most iconic British cake, a good Victoria sponge should be well-risen, moist, and as light as air. Serve dusted with sifted confectioners' sugar.
Steps to make Classic Victoria sponge cake:
- Cream (whisk) the butter and caster sugar together
- Crack the eggs into a jug and whisk. Then slowly add the eggs to the mixture.
- Next sieve the flour into the mixture. I buy pre sifted flour (see pic) just to make it quicker! And fold the flour in with a metal spoon. Fold it in using figure of 8 movements. You don’t want to knock the air out of the mixture.
- Grease then flour two round baking tins (8 inch tins) and pre heat oven to 180c pour the mixture into the tins and put in oven for around 16-18 mins
- Check that knife comes out clean. Put on wire rack to cool.
- For the icing you can use around 175g icing sugar and slowly add water while mixing until you have enough to cover the cake. If you add too much water just add more icing sugar until the correct consistency then decorate. Spread jam in the middle of the cake.
- If you want to make butter icing then mix 175g of icing sugar and 75g butter together. Spread onto cake then decorate. Normally I would make a round cake like above and in the middle I would put jam and buttercream and put buttercream on the top. For the cake below I made it in a rectangle tin to make a tray bake.
Before the Victoria sponge, British sponge cakes were leavened only by eggs hand-whisked with sugar until foamy and thick. From afternoon tea to an exuberant birthday cake to the classic Vicky sponge, baking cake is a national pastime. We teamed up with ex-pat Paola Thomas to bring you five. This Victoria sponge is a British classic and delicious afternoon teatime treat, combining strawberries and cream. Divide the mixture evenly between the tins and level with a knife.
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