Prep
15 minBake
20 minsServes
8Difficulty
Easy About
Looking for an easy Victoria sponge cake recipe for beginners? Look no further! This Victoria sponge cake recipe is the perfect way to round off any meal in scrumptious style. Named for Queen Victoria, this traditional and quintessentially British dessert makes for the perfect party cake and goes great with a cuppa!
Victoria Sponge Recipe
A British bake with a slice of history
When it comes to baking, the Victoria sponge cake is one of the ultimate family favourites. The Victoria sponge was also a favourite sweet treat of Queen Victoria's, who was known to have quite the sweet tooth! So partial was she to this particular sponge cake — with its light and fluffy sponge texture and delicious jam and cream filling — that it was actually named after her sometime circa 1860. Follow this easy Victoria sponge recipe for the ultimate Victoria sponge cake!
Pre-heat the oven to 180ºC (160 C fan). Grease and base line two 20cm sandwich tins. Beat the butter and Tate & Lyle Caster Sugar with an electric mixer until pale and fluffy. Beat eggs together with vanilla bean paste. Gradually add the egg mixture, beating well each time. (Add a little flour to the mix if it looks as if it might curdle).
Sift together the flour and baking powder over the mixture and fold in using a large metal spoon with enough milk to make a soft dropping consistency. Divide between the tins and level with a palette knife. Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes or until well risen, firm to touch and shrinking away from the sides of the tin. Leave to cool in the tin for 5 minutes, then turn out and leave to cool on a wire rack (discard the lining paper).
Place one cake on a plate and spread with whipped cream, then add raspberry jam on top and gently spread it around. Place the second cake on top. Dust liberally with Tate & Lyle Fairtrade Icing Cane Sugar and enjoy!
Ingredients – 10 items
1
Tate & Lyle Pure Cane Caster Sugar
Butter
softened
Large eggs
free range
Vanilla bean paste
Self raising flour
Baking powder
Skimmed milk
Double cream
Raspberry jam
Tate & Lyle Fairtrade Icing Cane Sugar
for dusting
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