Victoria sponge
By: James Martin From: James Martin: Sweet
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Victoria sponge
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Victoria sponge
Submitted by: angie_pangie
- Prep time:
- 25 mins, plus cooling
- Cook time:
- 25 mins
- Serves:
- makes one 20cm cake
A tea time classic from James Martin, a golden sponge cake filled with strawberry jam and softly whipped cream
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Tips and suggestions
- Eat with...
- Strawberry jam
Ingredients
- oil, for greasing
- Flour, for dusting
- 200g Butter
- 200g caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla essence
- 4 Eggs
- 200g self-raising flour, sifted
For the filling:
- strawberry jam
- 150ml double cream, whipped
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 190°C/gas 5.2. Grease and flour two 20cm sandwich tins.
3. Combine the butter, sugar and vanilla essence in a bowl or food processor, and mix well to a creamy consistency.
4. Slowly beat in the eggs one by one.
5. Fold in the sifted flour.
6. Pour the mixture into the prepared tins. Bake for 20-25 minutes until well-risen, golden brown and springy when pressed.
7. Turn out onto a wire rack and leave to cool.
8. Spread one cake with strawberry jam, followed by a layer of whipped cream. Place the other cake on top.
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View all comments (9)What a sponge cake my 10 year old daughter and Myself made it today so easy to make.The smell coming out of the oven was heavenly, it was lovely on its own or with a cup of tea thank you James will be checking to see what else the two of us can cook lol
easy and delicious, I used fresh strawberries instead of the jam - scrummy!
cake mix is gorgeous...:) just can't wait for it to come out of the oven:D
Got to be one of the easier recipes to make
swap the jam for fresh strawberries in season
well easy recipe, even i managed to do it right.
its a gd recipe i follow it exact n my cake never seems to rise why is that ?
The very best thak you the recipe never fails me James... you are a star. X