Victoria sandwich cake

Name: Victoria sandwich cake
Yield: For 6-8 people
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 250 g (9 oz) white sugar, approximately; 1 tbsp milk; 2 tsp baking powder; butter, for greasing; 4 eggs; 250 g (9 oz) butter, approximately, at room temperature; 250 g (9 oz) plain (all-purpose) flour, approximately; 2-3 tbsp raspberry or strawberry jam; icing (confectioners’) sugar, for dusting; flour, for dusting

Preparation info

For
6-8
people

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Oats in the North, Wheat from the South

By Regula Ysewijn

Published 2020

About

The first version of this cake was made in small, individual, elongated cakes such as the sandwiches that were served for an afternoon tea. In The Modern Baker, Confectioner and Caterer from 1907, John Kirkland gives different versions for cakes such as Coffee and walnut, but the Victoria sandwich with raspberry or strawberry jam and/or cream is the most popular. Traditionally, for this cake, the eggs are first weighed in their shell