Victoria Sponge Cake

Name: Victoria Sponge Cake
Prep time: 1 h 20 min
Cook time: 1 h 20 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: 6
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 2 teaspoons baking powder; 237 milliliters butter, softened; 237 milliliters confectioners sugar; 2 eggs, room temperature; 237 milliliters all-purpose flour; 118 milliliters milk, room temperature; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Victoria Sponge Cake requires about 1 hour and 20 minutes from start to finish. This recipe serves 6. One portion of this dish contains around 5g of protein, 33g of fat, and a total of 461 calories. A mixture of baking powder, vanillan extract, milk, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so scrumptious. It works well as an inexpensive dessert. 1 person found this recipe to be flavorful and satisfying. It is a good option if you're following a vegetarian diet.

Instructions

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Grease an 8-inch springform pan.

Equipment you will use

Springform Pan

Oven

Sift the flour and baking powder into a medium bowl and set aside.

Ingredients you will need

Baking Powder

All Purpose Flour

Equipment you will use

Bowl

Cream the butter and sugar together in a medium bowl.

Ingredients you will need

Butter

Cream

Sugar

Equipment you will use

Bowl

Add the eggs, one at a time mixing thoroughly with each addition. Slowly stir the flour mixture in with the butter, sugar, and eggs. Beat in the milk and vanilla until the batter is smooth.

Ingredients you will need

Vanilla

Butter

All Purpose Flour

Sugar

Egg

Milk

Pour the batter into the prepared pan

Equipment you will use

Frying Pan

Beat butter and sugar with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. The mixture should be noticeably lighter in color.

Ingredients you will need

Butter

Sugar

Equipment you will use

Hand Mixer

Add room-temperature eggs one at a time, allowing each egg to blend into butter mixture before adding the next. Beat in vanilla.

Ingredients you will need

Vanilla

Butter

Egg

Pour in the flour mixture alternately with the milk, mixing until just incorporated.

Ingredients you will need

All Purpose Flour

Milk

Pour batter into prepared pan.

Equipment you will use

Frying Pan

Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean, about 20 minutes. Cool the cake in the pan for 10 minutes, then turn the cake out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

Equipment you will use

Toothpicks

Wire Rack

Oven

Frying Pan

This cake can be served as is, just dusted with confectioners' sugar. Alternately, cut the cake in half horizontally and sandwich the layers together with jam or custard.

Ingredients you will need

Powdered Sugar