Coronation Victoria Sponge! – Jane’s Patisserie

A coronation victoria sponge with freshly whipped cream, strawberry jam and a dusting of icing sugar – excellent for King Charles Coronation!

A scrumptious and easy basic bake for a celebratory event… Generally easy bakes are finest, and a bake like it will all the time win my coronary heart. 

The Coronation 

It’s solely a few weeks till the coronation of King Charles, and so lots of you might be already baking and working towards on your bakes. Whether or not they’re for a avenue celebration, a bit of household gathering to look at the coronation, or no matter you want… bakes are the perfect bit. 

I have already got my coronation cake, and my mini coronation loaf muffins, however I assumed a bit extra of a basic could be a very good one too – and right here it’s. Sure I do know, primarily based on a special royal.. nevertheless it’s such a very good bake! 

What’s the ‘basic’ 

There may be all the time a debate about what really IS the ‘basic’ Victoria sponge… so I’ve gone with the model that I actually interpret that to be, so if you happen to disagree… apologies. 

There are countless variations… buttercream and jam, buttercream and fruit, cream and fruit, simply jam, and cream and jam like I’ve chosen. All are scrumptious, and it’s partly why my Victoria sponge celebration cake is buttercream – as I like that model as properly. Nevertheless, to make this totally different, and probably extra basic, I went for whipped cream and jam. 

I appeared on the girls’s institute, Mary Berry, the BBC, Tesco, Good home holding and so forth… all of them fluctuate ever so barely, so I’m assured some folks will like this explicit model.

Sponge

For the sponge, I did do it a smidge larger than some folks do. My again to fundamentals vanilla cake are fairly commonplace for a easy two layer cake, however usually folks discover it’s not deep sufficient for his or her style. So, I made this one a bit of deeper than regular for a two layer cake. 

All this meant was I elevated the portions by a small quantity. I went for a 6 egg combine, after which matched the remainder of the elements to that weight. Nevertheless, to make the recipe barely simpler, I used 300g of butter, flour and sugar. I do additionally add in a small quantity of baking powder (which is usually the case in a Victoria sponge!), and a bit of vanilla as I needed the flavour – however each of those are optionally available. 

You should utilize precise unsalted butter at room temperature, or you should use a baking unfold – I have a tendency to make use of baking unfold because it’s simpler. I take advantage of caster sugar, and self elevating flour for the remainder of the elements. 

Egg Weighing Methodology

Baking is science, and there may be one easy rule that may allow you to make the perfect easy sponge ever. Eggs are not often the very same weight and dimension, even when all of them say medium for instance. The simplest strategy to obtain the perfect sponge is to weigh your six (medium) eggs in a bowl, IN their shells nonetheless, and get the load. 

Say the load is 323g of egg, you’ll then use 323g of butter, sugar and flour. It doesn’t matter that you should have barely extra elements than the recipe says, as baking instances can fluctuate barely anyway. I discover this the easiest way to realize a very good end result. Additionally, make certain your oven is preheated accurately, and that you just don’t open the oven too quickly – high baking ideas as properly. 

Filling

For the filling as talked about above, there are numerous choices. I went for a barely sweetened whipped cream, and strawberry jam. Sorry if utilizing strawberry jam is blasphemous to you, however I do prefer it, and it’s what I had within the cabinet. 

I used double cream, with a bit of icing sugar and vanilla extract to make my cream – you wish to whip it to gentle peaks for finest outcomes to it doesn’t cut up. If the cream does cut up nonetheless, you possibly can add barely extra cream as a liquid and easily stir it via to convey it again collectively. 

Seedless jam, seeded jam, a preserve… I’m not one to guage; no matter works finest for you. And naturally, if you happen to would relatively use contemporary fruit, that’s completely okay as properly. I might most likely unfold the whipped cream on first, after which add the fruit on high – contemporary strawberries are scrumptious in a bake like this. 

Ideas & Tips 

• This cake will final 1-2+ days within the fridge (due to the cream, the sponge could dry barely so finest served contemporary) 
• The sponges could be frozen for 3+ months 
• You possibly can fill the cake with buttercream, or cream, or simply jam.. or fruit. As much as you! 

Cake

• 300 g unsalted butter (or baking unfold)
• 300 g caster sugar
• 6 medium eggs
• 300 g self elevating flour
• 1 tsp baking powder
• 2 tsps vanilla extract

Filling

• 250 g strawberry jam
• 300 ml double cream
• 1 tbsp icing sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla extract
• icing sugar to mud

Cake

• Preheat the oven to 180ºc/160ºfan and line two 20cm/8″ spherical cake tins with parchment paper

• Beat the butter and sugar collectively till mild and creamy

• Add the eggs, flour, baking powder and vanilla and blend collectively till mixed

• Break up the combination between the cake tins and bake for 35+ minutes, till golden and a skewer comes out clear

• Go away to chill absolutely

Filling

• As soon as cooled, unfold the jam over the primary sponge

• Add the double cream, icing sugar and vanilla to a bowl and whip to gentle peaks

• Unfold over the jam after which add the second sponge on high

• Mud the cake frivolously with icing sugar and luxuriate in!

• This cake will final 1-2+ days within the fridge (due to the cream, the sponge could dry barely so finest served contemporary) 
• The sponges could be frozen for 3+ months 
• You possibly can fill the cake with buttercream, or cream, or simply jam.. or fruit. As much as you! 

ENJOY!

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