Victoria Sandwich Cake

Victoria Sandwich Cake

Ingredients

You will need:

6 large eggs (beaten lightly)

350 g (12 oz) of margarine

350 g (12 oz) of caster sugar

350 g (12 oz) of plain flour

4 teaspoons of baking powder.

Bake in two 20 cm (8 in) greased and lined sandwich tins for about 25-30 minutes

6 tablespoons strawberry or raspberry jam

A little caster sugar, for sprinkling

This Makes Twelve Slices

(Feel free to halve the ingredients for a smaller cake!)

First

Put on the oven at 180 degrees C (160 degrees C if you have a fan oven).

Second

Weigh the margarine, sugar, eggs, flour and baking powder into an extremely large bowl and mix with an electric mixer or a wooden spoon. Distribute the mixture evenly between the tins using a ladle and level out. 

Third

Bake in the preheated oven for about 25 minutes or until fully risen and the tops of the cakes spring back when gently pressed with a finger. Leave to cool in the tins for a few minutes then turn out, peel off the parchment and finish cooling on a wire rack.

Fourth

When completely cold, sandwich the cakes together with the jam. Sprinkle with caster sugar to serve.

Cooking With Gran

Our Little Story

Normally, my gran and I do all our cooking via skype. BUT this time, we decided that while I was visiting we would do a simple little bake! It went great. We chose a simple recipe for our first bake in her kitchen... All went well until we got to the baking... Look at the following pictures to illustrate my point. All these things happened because we were using her grill oven !!!!!!! When she tried to scrape off the burnt cake it collapsed! As my gran put it, "Cooking with this oven is hopelessly ghastly!!!"

''A picture is worth a thousand words.

In the oven!!!

We tried putting it under the grill......!!!

Then cutting off the burnt bits!!!

We sandwiched it!!

But hid the crumbles!!

What a nice cake!

The other one worked fine however

Finally, exhausted after all that action, we did the washing up!