Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a simple dish, classic victoria sponge cake. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Classic Victoria Sponge Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Classic Victoria Sponge Cake is something which I have loved my whole life.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have classic victoria sponge cake using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Classic Victoria Sponge Cake:

1. Take For the Cake
2. Take Eggs
3. Prepare Soft Butter (can be salted or unsalted)
4. Prepare Self Raising Flour
5. Get Caster Sugar
6. Prepare Vanilla Essence
7. Prepare Baking Powder
8. Get Milk
9. Take For the filling
10. Prepare Soft Butter (can be salted or unsalted)
11. Get Icing Sugar
12. Make ready Vanilla Essense
13. Prepare Strawberry/Raspberry Jam

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:

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!

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. Classic Victoria sponge cake (Victoria sandwich) - the classic British tea time treat; simple yet elegant, it can't be beaten! This traditional cake is perfect for Birthdays, celebrations or Afternoon tea.

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