Sunday 20 February 2011

Victoria Sandwich Cake

My super lovely boyfriend has now moved into my flat with me ..hooray! Today we invited his mum round for a brew and a nosey round his new place.
After a few weekends in a row of baking I thought I would have the weekend off from it but I couldn't resist being tempted back into the kitchen to bake something for Karl's mum when she came round..you've gotta have a big slice of cake with a brew haven't you?!

I chose to make a Victoria sandwich cake using the Vanilla Layer Cake recipe from The Primrose Bakery book. After the success I had with their Lemon Layer Cake I was very much looking forward to tasting this recipe. It didn't disappoint. The sponge was lovely and light and fluffy with lashings of butter cream and raspberry jam.

I love a Victoria Sandwich..it brings back so many memories of childhood. This was the cake my mum always made...using her trusty Bero book! She always complains about people making it these days as alot of people call it a Victoria Sponge..she is forever telling me that a Victoria Sandwich Cake and a Sponge cake are two entirely different things; and that a sponge cake does not contain fat in the ingredients, where as a a Victoria Sandwich does! I guess mine could be frowned upon as not being a traditional Victoria Sandwich as I have decorated the top with butter cream and home made sugar flowers instead of using icing sugar...well, it did make it taste extra good!!



8 comments:

  1. Congratulations on your new flat mate!

    What a lovely way to welcome his Mum.

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  2. This looks delish! I love baking traditional cakes like the victoria sponge every now and again, you are reminded of why they are such classics!

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  3. I bet Karl's Mum was super impressed with that cake. Looks so pretty!
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  4. I love this recipe! Your flowers are stunning.

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  5. How gorgeous! I'm new to your blog and have spent some time poking through your earlier entries. I really like the food and recipes you feature here. I'll definitely be back. I hope you have a great day. Blessings..Mary

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  6. What a lovely blog! Where are you keeping your recipes? are they available for the plebs :-) sadly, I bake lots of cakes but my icing and decoration are either v basic or never get done! Keep up the good work and maybe your photos will inspire me!

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  7. Ahh thank you :) i used to put the recipes on and still do sometimes...i kinda started to feel a bit guilty putting other peoples recipes up when they are trying to sell books...i guess as long as long as i make it clear where its from and dont put the whole book up it should be ok tho! I may start putting them on here again! If you want any past ones tho i can always email them to you :)

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