Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Ultimate Classic Victoria sponge cake

Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, classic victoria sponge cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Classic Victoria sponge cake is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Classic Victoria sponge cake is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have 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:

1. Get 8 oz caster sugar
2. Make ready 8 oz butter or stork
3. Make ready 8 oz self raising flour
4. Take 4 eggs
5. Make ready For the icing ontop
6. Make ready 175 g icing sugar
7. Get 75 g butter or stork

Instructions to make Classic Victoria sponge cake:

1. Cream (whisk) the butter and caster sugar together
2. Crack the eggs into a jug and whisk. Then slowly add the eggs to the mixture.
3. 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.
4. 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
5. Check that knife comes out clean. Put on wire rack to cool.
6. 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.
7. 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.

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