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Classic Victoria Sponge Cake is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Classic Victoria Sponge Cake is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook classic victoria sponge cake using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Classic Victoria Sponge Cake:

1. Prepare For the Cake
2. Take 4 large Eggs
3. Get 250 grams Soft Butter (can be salted or unsalted)
4. Prepare 250 grams Self Raising Flour
5. Get 250 grams Caster Sugar
6. Make ready 1 1/2 tsp Vanilla Essence
7. Take 1 1/2 tsp Baking Powder
8. Get 2 tbsp Milk
9. Make ready For the filling
10. Prepare 100 grams Soft Butter (can be salted or unsalted)
11. Take 140 grams Icing Sugar
12. Make ready 1 tsp Vanilla Essense
13. Get 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. 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.

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!

We teamed up with ex-pat Paola Thomas to bring you five. 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. 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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