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Victoria Sponge

Name: Victoria Sponge
Total time: 50 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 180g Butter; 180g Granulated sugar; 3 Egg; 180g All-purpose flour; 2 tsp Baking Powder; 2 tbsp Milk; 100g Raspberry Jam; 150ml Heavy Cream; To taste Powdered sugar; A pinch Vanilla Extract

Dessert

⏱ 50 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐

Two buttery sponges sandwiched with jam and cream and dusted with powdered sugar — a cake linked to Queen Victoria.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

The Victoria sponge is said to be named for Queen Victoria, who enjoyed it with afternoon tea. It's a simple recipe using equal weights of butter, sugar, eggs, and flour, sandwiched with raspberry jam and cream and simply dusted with powdered sugar. It's known as a standard cake at British village shows.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a summer village fair's baking competition, judges cut and taste one homemade Victoria sponge after another from a table full of them.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Butter 180g
Granulated sugar 180g
Egg 3
All-purpose flour 180g
Baking Powder 2 tsp
Milk 2 tbsp
Raspberry Jam 100g
Heavy Cream 150ml
Powdered sugar To taste
Vanilla Extract A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cream the room-temperature butter and sugar until pale.
Gradually add the beaten eggs, then the vanilla.
Sift in the flour and baking powder, fold lightly, and adjust the consistency with milk.
Divide between two 18cm pans, bake at 180°C for 20–25 minutes, and cool.
Whip the cream, spread jam on the first sponge, and top with the cream.
Place the second sponge on top and dust with powdered sugar.

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