Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, victoria sponge cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Mary Berry's easy Victoria sponge cake recipe is a baking classic and a tasty tea-time treat. This cake is named after Queen Victoria and goes by the names Victoria Sponge or a Victoria Sandwich Cake. The Victoria Sponge was named after Queen Victoria, as reputedly it was her favorite cake. Anna, the Duchess of Bedford, who has been given credit for introducing the charming art of the afternoon tea.
Victoria Sponge Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Victoria Sponge Cake is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook victoria sponge cake using 12 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Victoria Sponge Cake:
- Get For the Cake
- Take 6 oz Self Raising Flour, sifted
- Make ready 6 oz Caster Sugar
- Prepare 6 oz Unsalted Butter, room temperature
- Make ready 3 Eggs
- Prepare 1 tsp Baking Powder
- Prepare 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
- Prepare For the Buttercream
- Make ready 3 oz Unsalted Butter, room temperature
- Make ready 6 oz Icing Sugar, sifted
- Prepare For Serving
- Prepare Enough strawberries halved to cover the cake and for decorating
This traditional British layer cake is made up of two buttery, tender spongecake rounds that sandwich a thick layer of jam and, often, a. A Victoria Sponge was the favorite sponge cake of Queen Victoria, and has since become a tried-and-true recipe for tea-time sponge cakes. Victoria Sponges are generally filled with jam, and are. This is the traditional recipe for a Victoria sponge cake, a much loved English favourite.
Steps to make Victoria Sponge Cake:
- Sift the flour, baking powder and caster sugar together into a mixing bowl. Add the butter and eggs. Mix everything together until well combined.
- For a Victoria Sponge or vanilla cake add the vanilla essence and combine with the cake mixture.
- Spilt the cake mixture between two greased and lined circular cake baking trays (about 8 inches in diameter). Bake at 180C for 30 minutes or until the sponge bounces back and a skewer in the cake comes out clean.
- Set the cake aside to cool and meanwhile make the buttercream by combining the butter and icing sugar. I often find a table spoon of milk helps to begin the icing sugar and butter mixing.
- Beat the buttercream until light and fluffy with all the ingredients combined. (To make a different flavour buttercream add flavourings after making the basic mix.)
- Slice the strawberries. Once the cake is cool spread half the buttercream on the top of one cake half. Then layer the strawberries so they cover the buttercream. Then sandwich the buttercream and strawberries between the cake halves. Spread the remaining half of the buttercream on top of the cake and decorate with strawberries.
- For different flavour cakes and buttercream: add different flavourings after making the basic cake mix and combining and the same for buttercream. Add the flavourings after making the basic buttercream and combine.
- For a lemon and poppy seed cake. Add the zest and juice of 3/4 of a lemon and about 50g poppy seeds. Make a lemon buttercream by adding the remaining zest and juice to a basic buttercream.
- For a chocolate cake add 2 tablespoons of coca powder to the basic cake mix and the basic buttercream.
- For coffee and walnut cake make an espresso and add to the basic cake mix. I also add chopped walnuts to mine and mix the ingredients well. To make a coffee buttercream add an expresso to the basic buttercream, you might find you need to add some extra icing sugar to soak up the expresso. This is fine and will not change the taste.
Victoria Sponges are generally filled with jam, and are. This is the traditional recipe for a Victoria sponge cake, a much loved English favourite. See footnote about weighing the eggs for best results. Serve with buttercream as in the recipe. Victoria Sponge Cake is a two-layer sponge-like airy cake that is filled with a layer of jam and whipped cream.
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