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Victoria Sponge Recipe

Ingredients

  • 200 g butter
  • 200 g caster sugar
  • 4 eggs
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 200 g self raising flour
  • 125 ml whipping cream
  • 1 tablespoon icing sugar
  • 4 tablespoon strawberry jam
  • 1 teaspoon caster sugar

Instructions

  1. Cream the butter and sugar together until light and fluffy.
  2. Add the eggs one at a time and then the vanilla extract.
  3. Fold in the sifted flour and turn into a baking tin.
  4. Bake on 170 degrees for 30 minutes and leave to cool on a wire rack.
  5. Turn out of the tin when cool and cut in half.
  6. Whip the cream until stiff with the sugar and a teaspoon of vanilla extract.
  7. Spread the jam and whipped cream on the bottom half and sandwich with the top half.
  8. Cover the top with the remaining whipped cream.