Victoria Sandwich

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6–8

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in
The Official Downton Abbey Cookbook

By Annie Gray

Published 2019

  • About

Split sandwich cakes often make an appearance in the kitchen and drawing room at Downton Abbey. This is probably the best-known cake of that type in Britain, but the original version was not the large round cake visible at Downton and usually served under the name today, but a delicate pile of finger sandwiches made with sponge cake and spread with what the recipe in Isabella Beeton’s