Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, classic victorian sponge cake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have classic victorian sponge cake using 9 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Classic Victorian Sponge Cake:
- Take 125 Grams Unsalted butter
- Make ready 125 Grams All purpose flour
- Prepare 125 Grams Castor sugar
- Prepare 2 eggs large
- Make ready 1/2 Teaspoon baking powder
- Take 100 Grams Strawberry (optional)
- Get 70 Grams sugar (optional)
- Get 1 Tablespoon lemon juice (optional)
- Prepare 200 Grams cream double .
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. The perfect party cake, a Victoria sponge is a traditional bake everyone will love.
Steps to make Classic Victorian Sponge Cake:
- Make sure the butter is at room temperature before you begin. First grease your baking pan and dust it with flour. Now, start by sifting together the flour and baking powder. Then cream your butter with a wooden spoon till light and fluffy and add castor sugar and cream ti well.
- Preheat oven to 180 C. Add the eggs one by one and use the wooden spoon to mix it well so that it becomes fluffy. Now fold in the sifted flour-baking powder mixture but add it by sifting it once again. (This ensures that your cake is light in texture)
- Bake for 30 minutes in regular ovens and 40 minutes in convection ovens. Once baked insert a toothpick and if it comes out clean your cake is baked. Let it rest in the pan for 15 minutes, take it out and then let is rest for another 30 minutes before serving. You can serve it with whipped cream.
- If you want to use layers of whipped cream and strawberry compote. let the cake rest for half a day and then bake another layer or cut this into two discs and apply whipped cream and strawberry compote generously as a filling and on top.
- If making strawberry compote use 100gm fresh strawberries. Remove the stalk and then chop it up and mix well with 70gm sugar. Leave it for half a day and then bring to slow boil with 1 tbsp lemon juice and simmer till you get a thick compote.
We teamed up with ex-pat Paola Thomas to bring you five. The perfect party cake, a Victoria sponge is a traditional bake everyone will love. Makes an easy wedding cake, too. Classic Victoria sponge cake (Victoria sandwich) - the classic British tea time treat; simple yet elegant, it can't be beaten! This Victoria sponge is a British classic and delicious afternoon teatime treat, combining strawberries and cream.
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