Steps to Make Any-night-of-the-week Victoria sponge

Victoria sponge.

You can cook Victoria sponge using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Victoria sponge

1. Prepare 6 oz of butter or margarine.
2. You need 6 oz of caster sugar.
3. You need 3 of eggs.
4. You need 6 oz of self raising flour.
5. It's 1 tsp of vanilla extract.
6. It's 120 ml of double cream.
7. It's 20 g of icing sugar.
8. It's of Strawberry or raspberry jam.
9. You need of Strawberries.
10. You need of Icing sugar for dusting.

Victoria sponge instructions

1. Pre heat your oven to 180⁰/gas mark 5. Start by mixing the butter and sugar together until combined..
2. Add the eggs in and mix..
3. Add the flour and stir together until smooth..
4. Add the vanilla extract..
5. Grease your cake tins, use baking paper or butter..
6. Add half of mixture into each tin and make sure they are both even..
7. To check if its ready, put a knife in the cakes and if it comes out clean then it's ready and if it comes out with mixture on then leave for a few more minutes..
8. When the cakes come out leave to cool slightly and then take them out of the tins and put on a cooling rack..
9. Whip the cream in a bowl until soft peaks form, add the icing sugar and stir in..
10. When cakes are cooled, spread some jam over the bottom layer of the cake. Pipe the cream on top of the jam and and when that layer is covered add other layer on top..
11. Pipe cream on top of the cake around the edge. Add the strawberries and dust the icing sugar on top..