Recipe: Tasty Classic Victoria Sponge

Classic Victoria Sponge.

Classic Victoria Sponge You can have Classic Victoria Sponge using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Classic Victoria Sponge

  1. You need 225 g of soft butter/soft margerine.
  2. Prepare 225 g of Caster Sugar.
  3. It’s 225 g of Self raising flour.
  4. Prepare 4 of Eggs.
  5. Prepare 2 teaspoons of baking powder.
  6. You need of for the filling.
  7. It’s of Gert dollops of whatever jam you fancy!.
  8. You need 140 g of soft butter.
  9. It’s 225 g of Icing sugar.

Classic Victoria Sponge instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 180 degrees and grease 2 x 8" sandwich tins.
  2. Put ALL the cake ingredients into a mixing bowl and mix till smooth (either by hand or with a mixer!). Then divide the cake batter evenly between the tins..
  3. Put in the oven and bake for about 25 mins until risen. Remove from the oven and leave to cool for a few minutes before turning out on a wire rack to cool..
  4. Whilst the cakes are cooking/cooling, mix the Icing sugar and butter together until smooth..
  5. When the cakes are cool, spread a good dollop of your chosen jam over one half of the cake. Then spread the buttercream on the other half (saving half for the top if you prefer).
  6. "Sandwich" the two cakes together and there it is, in all its scrumminess 😊❤️.