Victoria Sandwich Cake

The Victoria sponge ,also known as the Victoria sandwich or Victorian cake is named after Queen Victoria.

A typical Victoria sponge consists of raspberry jam and whipped double cream or vanilla cream.

The traditional method is creaming caster sugar with butter , mixing thoroughly with beaten egg, then folding flour and raising agent into the mixture.

These days ,an electric mixer or food processor is used in whisking all the ingredients together until creamy.

  Ingredients

3 fresh eggs

200 g caster sugar

200 g butter

200 g self raising flour

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

1 teaspoon baking powder

2 tablespoon of Baileys Irish cream

Method

Sieve the flour and baking powder in a big bowl, then add eggs,sugar ,butter , vanilla extract and baileys Irish cream.

whisk until smooth and then divide into 18 cm or 20 cm tins.

bake at 160 degree centigrade for 30 mins until golden brown.

Allow to cool before adding your favorite icing, for this cake  I added hazelnut filling and buttercream icing and finally sprinkled some marshmallows on top.

Yummy.

                                                                                                                                                                    

Madeleines

Madeleine is a type of sponge cake that originated from Commercy and Liverdun (in the Lorraine region of northeastern France) . The main  ingredients are flour,eggs, almonds or other nuts. All you need to make them are the ingredients and a shell shaped baking pan.

I absolutely love them, they are so easy to make and you can tweak the recipe to your taste by adding zest .One can never go wrong with Madeleine, they are my favourite.


My Method

Ingredients

Flour
Butter
Vanilla Extract
Lemon Zest ( I prefer tangerine , clementine or orange Zest)
Salt
Sugar 
Eggs (2) depending on the quantity you are making.



I basically mix all the dry ingredients together (flour,sugar and Salt).
I then add my zest to the broken eggs and whisk for one minute or so , add the vanilla extract,
then I pour in the dry ingredients(flour,sugar and salt).
 I add my butter last, melted in the microwave for a few seconds. Mix everything together and the batter is ready.
 You can use a pipping bag and then put them in the Madeleine tray to bake in the oven for 15 to 20 minutes until they are golden brown.

Once they are ready, bring them out to cool on a rack.

Enjoy with tea , ice cream or whatever you fancy.

yummy.