Coffee-Flavoured Victoria Sponge

Name: Coffee-Flavoured Victoria Sponge
Prep time: 25 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 55 min
Yield: makes one 20 cm (8 in) cake
Cuisine: United Kingdom
Ingredients: 2 tbsp icing (confectioners) sugar; 200 ml (7 fl oz) double (heavy) cream; 1 tsp instant coffee, dissolved in 2 tbsp boiling water.; 250 g (9 oz) self-raising (-rising) flour; 1 tsp instant coffee, dissolved in 2 tbsp boiling water; A little icing (confectioners) sugar to dust; 4 eggs, large; 250 g (9 oz) very soft butter, plus a little extra for greasing; 250 g (9 oz) caster (superfine) sugar

Preparation info

makes
one
20 cm cake

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
55 min

Appears in

The Pink Whisk Guide to Cake Making

By Ruth Clemens

Published 2013

About

Flavouring plain cakes is extremely easy with the wealth of extracts that can be bought in the supermarket, or by using dissolved coffee granules as here. Always add your flavouring to the creamed butter and sugar – the fat traps the flavour and distributes it evenly throughout your cake.

Ingredients

Cake

250 g (9 oz) very soft butter, plus a little extra for greasing

Europe
United Kingdom
Dessert
Cake
Baking
Vegetarian

Method

Follow the same method as Victoria Sponge, but omit the vanilla extract and add the coffee flavouring (1 tsp instant coffee dissolved in 2 tbsp boiling water) by whisking it into the creamed butter and sugar, before adding the eggs.