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Victoria Sandwich

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Prep: 0 min Cook: 0 min Difficulty: medium

Categories: Lunch, Dessert, Baked

Tags: baking, dessert, easy, english, recipes for cake, recipes using butter, recipes using egg, recipes using superfine sugar, recipes using whipped cream, recipes with metric units, recipes without cooking time, recipes without servings

Source: Wikibooks contributors (https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook%3AVictoria_Sandwich)

Adapted: Imported and reformatted by HowManyCookies from the cited Wikibooks revision.

Source revision: https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook%3AVictoria%20Sandwich&oldid=4516968

License: CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) · Wikibooks contributors

Ingredients

  • 170 g (⅔ cup or 6 oz) self-raising flour
  • 170 g (⅔ cup or 6 oz) unsalted butter or margarine
  • 170 g (⅔ cup or 6 oz) caster sugar
  • 3 eggs (170 g without shell)
  • 1 tsp vanilla essence
  • Fruit jam
  • Whipped cream or buttercream

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 200°C (400°F or Gas Mark 6).
  2. Cream the butter and sugar into a bowl and mix with a wooden spoon until softened.
  3. Add the 3 eggs, the vanilla essence, and the flour and mix until smooth.
  4. Divide the mixture between the two greased cake pans.
  5. Bake in the oven for 20–30 minutes (10–15 in a fan-assisted oven) until firm to the touch.
  6. Leave to cool completely on a cooling rack.
  7. Turn one cake upside down and spread jam and whipped cream over it. Then, place the second cake on top.
  8. Cut into wedges, and serve.

Equipment

1 mixing bowl, 1 wooden spoon, 1 table knife, 1 palette knife, 2 ea. 18 cm (7 in) circular cake pans, 1 cooling rack