Tuesday, 10 March 2015

Recipe #21 Victoria Sponge Cake



 My favourite recipe- basic Sponge cake. This recipe is a classic! Cant go wrong.. Easy steps and simple steps to follow!!

Serves: 8

Ingredients

  • 175 grams unsalted butter
  • 175 grams caster sugar
  • 3 eggs
  • 175 grams sifted plain flour
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • 1 tblsp milk



Method

-Grease 2 8-inch cake pans, grease them with butter and dust it with flour and keep it aside

-Preheat the oven at 180deg c

-In a mixing bowl, take butter and with a wooden spoon soften the butter till smooth and creamy

-Add sugar to the butter and mix well until incorporated

-Add 1 tblsp of flour and add 1 egg at a time, mixing well at each interval

-Sift in flour and baking powder and fold in very gently (be careful so that you don’t knock-off the air)

-Add milk and fold in till it’s well incorporated

-Transfer the mix immediately in 2 pans by dividing the mix equally

- Bake it for 30 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the centre and it comes out clean

-Let the cakes cool in the pan for 10 minutes and transfer it on a wire rack

-Sandwich the cake with whichever icing you like and dust icing sugar in top

-If you don’t want to use any icing, then you can serve it as it is!..

Happy Baking!!