This is a simple and easy one mix large Victoria Sponge recipe. A no messing about, mix it and bake cake that is a guaranteed crowd pleaser and my go to whenever I need a sponge of epic delicious proportions.
Preheat the oven to 160 °C/325°F/Gas Mark 3. Place all your sponge ingredients in your mixing bowl. Make sure the butter is room temperature.
Mix until pale. About 2 minutes. Divide between 2 x 8" loose bottomed and lined cake tins. Weigh them to get roughly the same amount in each.
Bake for about 30 minutes until golden and a skewer/cocktail stick comes out clean when inserted into the middle of the cake.
Leave the sponges in the tin for 5 mins before carefully running a knife around the sides and gently easing out and onto the wire rack to fully cool.
When ready to sandwich together then softly whip the cream if using and place the first sponge on your serving plate. Cover the sponge with jam before topping with the cream. Gently place the naked sponge on top and lightly dust with icing sugar. I use a sieve to get the icing sugar to cover the cake lightly.
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Notes
Butter and eggs at room temperature.
Beat the mixture until it pales.
Weigh the cake tins with the batter in to get them roughly equal
Use an oven thermometer to correctly track your oven temp
Use reusable liners in your cake tins for ease
To make this into a chocolate victoria sponge then add 50 grams of cocoa (not drinking chocolate) and take away 25 grams of flour. However here is a delicious chocolatey sponge cake my Easy Chocolate Cake .
You could also use buttercream to sandwich this cake together. Vanilla buttercream would be ideal with jam.
To make this cake gluten free then substitute the plain flour for gluten free flour. You may need to add a splash of milk to get a soft dropping consistency as gluten free flour can absorb more liquid than standard white flour.
If your cake is not of a soft dropping consistency (falls from a spoon easily) then add a splash of milk or two until it does.
Be careful not to overbake. This means watching it towards the end of baking time carefully.
You could also fill with alternative fillings, lemon curd and cream is dreamy here. But pimp your ride as you see fit.