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Victoria sponge

Name: Victoria sponge
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 10 servings
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 1 cup minus 2 tbsp soft butter; 1 cup caster plus icing to dust sugar; 4 egg; 1 2/3 cups maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour); 2 tsp baking powder; 2 tbsp milk; 1 tsp vanilla essence (vanilla flavouring, imitation vanilla extract); Jam (jam or jelly), raspberry or strawberry jam; 3/4 cup plus 2 tbsp whipped fresh cream (thickened cream, heavy cream)

Two golden butter sponges sandwiched with jam and cream. Tea party royalty.

50 minTime

5 gProtein each

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Grandma's wayButter sponge, raspberry jam, cream, sugar dust.

The original

438kcalsame

5 gproteinsame

1 gfibresame

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Victoria sponge.

Per serving, worked out from the ingredient table.

Ingredients

Butter1 cup minus 2 tbsp, soft

Sugar1 cup caster, plus icing to dust

Egg4

Maida (all-purpose flour, plain flour)1⅔ cups

Baking powder2 tsp

Milk2 tbsp

Vanilla essence (vanilla flavouring, imitation vanilla extract)1 tsp

Jam (jam or jelly)raspberry or strawberry jam

Fresh cream (thickened cream, heavy cream)¾ cup plus 2 tbsp, whipped

Method

4 steps

1Beat butter and sugar until pale and fluffy, about 4 minutes.
2Beat in eggs one at a time, then fold in flour, baking powder, milk and vanilla.
3Divide between two lined 20 cm tins. Bake at 180 C for 22 to 25 minutes.
4Cool, spread one layer with jam and cream, top with the other. Dust with sugar.

Serve it like this

Place on a cake stand, dust with sugar and cut wedges at the table. Tea in china cups.

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