Victoria sponge cake
By: Paul Hollywood From: Good Food Live
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Victoria sponge cake
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Victoria sponge cake
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- Prep time:
- 20 mins
- Cook time:
- 20 mins
- Serves:
- makes one cake
Feather light sponge and a fabulous filling mean Paul Hollywood's easy to make, classic cake is sure to become a favourite
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Ingredients
Sponge
Filling
- 3 tbsp strawberry jam
- 500ml double cream
Method
1. Set the oven to 180C/gas 4. Lightly butter two sandwich tins, each with a diameter of 20cm.2. Cream together the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy, and then slowly add the beaten egg.
3. Fold in the sifted flour and spoon the mixture into the prepared cake tins.
4. Bake for 20 minutes. Leave to cool and then remove from the tins.
5. Whip the cream until thick and use it to fill the sponge with the jam.
6. Dust liberally with icing sugar to serve.
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View all comments (61)just made this cake. The amount of ingredients the recipe says was not enough 2 fill the tins but add a tsp of baking powder to help it rise more.
Easiest and stil the best,this recipe is "tops" with me and my friends. Thanks.
To ErinK2590: that might be more to do with an ingredient you used or the method you employed than the recipe. Bear in mind that the recipe doesn't tell you to stir while adding the egg and keep stirring until the mixture is homogenous, but you'll need to. I used this recipe for the first cake I ever baked earlier today. It was almost perfect. The only issue I can find is that 500ml cream is far too much; I barely used half. Finished product: http://i31.tinypic.com/2qs43ys.jpg
Not a very good sponge cake recipe. Aside from the fact that you need to at LEAST double the recipe to make both the 2 top and bottom pieces of a sponge cake, the finished result is not very spongey or light at all! Give this recipe a pass. There's better out there.
will try it on saturday and give you the thums up of down
Wicked.........very nice and light sponge, great turn out. used melted chocolate and 100 and 1000s instead :-)
very boring
please add some pictures of the steps taken to make the cake thanks x
Excellent! The atste is excellent, all my friends enjoyed this cake
thankss (:
Thiss Lookss Baree Niceee :) Mmmmmmm :)
the first cake I've ever done by myself! I'm poud! Naomi, 16
i love sponge cakes all my life
very nice, a lovley fluffly cake to enjoy wen jammin with ur matess xxxxx
nice
good recipie im making it in school well we have to mae our own so i picked this it looks like it would be a very nice desert i just love to cook and bake cakes
awesome i rate it 4
Me Like Food >:)
This recipe is gorgeous, highly recomended for dinner parties.
i hope it works im useing it 4 my skewl fodtech class
Very good recipe, I would strongly recommend it to everyone who likes a good sponge cake.
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a good cake :D
I can not cook very well, but this did help. Thank you guys much love x
great recipy made 4. Tin size 250mmx200mm coocked for 35 mins on 180 just added a tea spoon of baking powder what a rise (brill) should have 6 stars
i thought this was i really fantastic cake juat waiting to eat it !!!!! :)
love the recipe its soo simple
ooooooh quite nice
this cake recipe is the besat recipe methd i have used so far i do recamened it
I tried this at home and it was relly good
i'm 18 , am haven't baked a cake since yr 11 food technology lessons ( that was 2 years ago) . Found it really easy to make , apart from it took nearly a hour to cook but hasn't yet sunk in the middle , thnks for recipe
Making the cake at minute!!... gonna use Fudge yogurt instead of the cream and jam filling though.. hope it works!! :D
Made the cake looks great has not gone golden just hopes it tasts great
I made this today for first time. Did not have strawberry jam but used raspberry instead. Is delishamundo.
Just made this today, first time baking the whole family loved it...
i made this for my mum for mums day it was lovely but long to cook and then i made enother one 20 minutes ago checked it and was still runny and dark brown :C
Just made this cake from the recipe above for my mum for mothers day. Great recipe, we made ours in a heart shape, just hope it tastes nice! ours too has sunk slightly in the middle :)
just made this looked good in the oven, left in to cool and bingo, sunk in the middle,,,, why?????im sure my testing team wont worry tho, cream and strawberries hide all kind of faults xx
I made this cake, a few minutes ago .. It was all going well until the top part came out of the oven. I was devasted as it looked like a pie !! The rim was perfect however it sunk in the middle.. What did i do wrong ?
very light
this is the first victoria sponge cake i have made and it has turned out really good, so thank you so much for the recipe.
Hi when ever I make a victoria sponge the edge always goes crunchy, why is this??
I'm 35 and i never baked a cake until now - i don't have self raising flour but i was told i can add baking powder - how much should i add to this mixture??? (even though it was quite flat it was still moist and delicious!)
Im 12 and my gran does not eat alot of cakes and she said 2 me that it was nice and light on her belly so thanx for the recipe
I made this Cake and my whole family loved it. it was quick and easy and i am only 11 so i really enjoyed making the Cake.
i made this cake and everytime i made it the top of the cake went hard and chewy and suggestions xx :D
i love victoria sponge and i am the MASTER of them im only 11 but if someone tried my cake without knowing who did it they probably would have thought if was a proffesional! (my heads getting too big right!)
This cake is great guys. Although when I made it the first time the top of the cake fell off the bottom.
I'm 12 and i love to cook!!! This is a top notch recipe and victoria sponge cake is a great thing to make... Yum yum!!!
its not suitable but try making a normal sponge cake and decorate the top
I was wondering if anyone who has made this cake can tell me if it would be suitable for a birthday cake and how big was the end product so i know where to go for size etc, any help would be appreciated thanks
i must say i hadnt baked a cake in years and was a bit apprehensive as to how this was gonna turn out but hey you know what it was literally a piece of cake it rose beautifully ans tasted absolutley scrummy
first time making it and it was delisious but the sad part was it never rised at all still good to eat though hummmmmyyyyyyy
this was a piece of cake... hahaha
found when i tried to do one big cak ewith this mix it didnt rise at all, but i made the mix again and used in in individual cupcake holders and it rose well then, i am going to give the whole cake another go later, fingers crossed it will rise this time
This recipe worked excellent. That was the first time Ive ever used double cream and whipped it for thickness. My advice is to put it in the fridge after you made it so it sets then put it in the middle or the top half of the cake slides allover!
very disappointing out come, best to avoid, also left me flat ha
The cake was very good. Simple and easy to make. The cake was risen very well. i ADDED 2 TEASPOONS OF VANNILLA EXTRACT, it tasted delicious.
i made this for my youngest brothers birthday. i had never made a cake before
i tried making this sponge cake over and over and i just cant get the sponge to rise,it does cook and taste lovely but is flatter than a pancake ha ha ha........can you please please help me...its my boy friends favorite cake and i really want to impresse him
this cake is a very rich and light cake that gives it a really good taste and one of my fav recipies