Perhaps your New Year’s resolution was to bake more this year, learn new recipes or be more creative!
‘Pear of Peas’ – who’s pop up tea parties at our fairs always go down an absolute treat, have kindly shared one of their best selling, and most classic, recipes.
Victoria Sponge
My grandmother taught me how to make a basic sponge at the age of 6…and I have make it the same way ever since!
I make all my butter once a week and I use it for all of my cakes…just use shop bought butter but make sure you take it out of the fridge at least an hour before cooking.
You will need:
2 greased and lined cake tins, 20cm wide
Ingredients:
200g Self raising flour
200g butter
200g caster sugar
1 tea spoon baking powder
4 eggs
1.Preheat over to Gas mark 5 or 190c
2.Put all the ingredients in a mixing bowl or stand mixer and beat until all incorporated and smooth, scrape down the sides of the bowl and beat again for a minute or two.
Divide evenly between the 2 tins…I, as an obsessive, weigh the tins to make sure they are evenly laden!
3. Cook in the oven for 30 minutes…you know they are done as when you touch them the cake will spring back or insert a toothpick and if it comes out clean the cake is done.
4. Remove from the tin after 5 minutes and then cool on a cooling rack.
5. While the cake is cooling, make the icing.
Ingredients:
100g butter, softened
140g icing sugar
Teaspoon vanilla extract
Maybe a little milk
6. Beat all the ingredients together, until smooth and soft.
7.When the cake is cool, place one half of the cake onto a cake stand smooth over the icing and then the jam, place the cake on top and dust liberally with icing sugar.
8. Finish with fresh fruit or crystallised flowers.
‘Pear of Peas’ will be popping up at our Leamington Spa & Bath events! We can’t wait to get our sticky mits on one of those cakes (phwoar)
Happy baking folks!
Judy HQ xx