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Victoria sponge

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    • Difficulty

      Easy

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By Caroline Conran

Published 1978

  • About

By Queen Victoria’s day sponge cakes admitted butter into the ingredients to make a cake which was less likely to collapse and cause sadness in the drawing-room than the original butterless sponge.

Ingredients

  • 175 g (6 oz) butter
  • 175 g (6

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C, 350°F, Gas Mark 4. Butter and flour two 18-cm (7-in) sandwich tins.

Cream the butter and sugar together until light and pale, then add the egg, a little at a time, adding a tablespoon of flour when about two-thirds of the egg has been added. Lastly ad

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