Recipe: Perfect Classic Victoria Sponge

Classic Victoria Sponge.

You can prepare Classic Victoria Sponge using 9 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Classic Victoria Sponge

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

Classic Victoria Sponge directions

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 😊❤️.