Name: Victorian sponge
Yield: 0 serving
Cuisine: Bake
Ingredients: 350.00 g butter unsalted; 350.00 g castor sugar; 6.00 eggs large; 10.00 ml vanilla extract; 350.00 g flour self-raising; 315.00 ml cream fresh, whipped; 90.00 ml jam strawberry or youngberry; 0.00 icing sugar to dust

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Ingredients (8)

350.00 g	butter — unsalted
350.00 g	castor sugar
6.00	eggs — large
10.00 ml	vanilla — extract
350.00 g	flour — self-raising

FILLING & TOPPING

315.00 ml	cream — fresh, whipped
90.00 ml	jam — strawberry or youngberry
0.00	icing sugar — to dust

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Method:

Preheat the oven to 180 &degC.
With an electric mixer, cream the butter and sugar until pale, light and fluffy.
Add the eggs one by one and continue beating with the mixer until incorporated.
Add the vanilla extract and mix well.
Once the eggs have been incorporated, sift the flour and gently fold it in with a spatula.
The mixture should be thick enough to stay on the spatula and plop off when turned upside down (this is called dropping consistency).
If it is took thick, add a little water.
Spoon into two greased 23 cm cake tins and smooth the tops.
Bake for 20 to 25 minutes or until risen well, and a skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean.
When cooled slightly, turn the cakes out and cool them on wire racks.
Turn one cake upside down on a wire rack or serving platter and top first with cream, and then with jam.
place the other cake on top and sprinkle with icing sugar.