Victoria Sponge Cake
Ingredients :
Powdered
sugar – 170 gms
Butter or
margarine – 170 gms
Self
–raising flour – 170 gms or plain flour with 1 ½ tsp baking powder
Eggs – 3
Vanilla
essence – 1 tsp
Milk – ½ cup
Method :
Sieve the flour.
Take out the butter from the
refrigerator 1 hour in advance
Cream the butter and sugar very
well.
When the mixture is light and
creamy, add the eggs, one at a time, beating each time thoroughly.
If the mixture curdles while
adding the eggs, add a little flour before adding the next egg.
Finally, fold in the flour and
add milk until the mixture forms a dropping consistency.
Add the vanilla essence.
Grease and dust two 175 mm
diameter sandwich tins.
Pour half the mixture into each
of the two prepared tins.
Bake in a hot oven at 400° F for
20 minutes.
Tips & Variations :-
Orange Sandwich: Add finely grated rind of 2 oranges when
creaming the margarine and sugar. Fill with orange butter icing and top with
orange glace icing.
Chocolate Sandwich: Instead of 170 gms of self raising flour,
use 140 gms of the flour and 30 gms of cocoa. Fill with chocolate butter icing
and top with chocolate glace icing.
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