Victoria Sponge Cake Minis!

Yesterday I decided to bake a Victoria Sponge Cake and then decided to turn them into minis for my friends at university. I thought it would be better than taking a slice or two of the whole cake for all of them to taste from.

I have found that the sponge for this cake is one the easiest ones to make as all you need to do is just mix the ingredients together in a bowl and then whack it into then oven! I made the cake in a 10-inch cake tin and then cut the minis from there.

The recipe is as follows:

200g self raising flour

200g caster sugar, and a little extra for dusting at the end 

200g unsalted butter softened, not melted

200g eggs (4 eggs)

2tsp baking soda

250ml double cream

Strawberry/ Raspberry jam

• Pre-heat the oven to 180C. Line the base of a 10-inch cake tin with greaseproof paper.
• Place the self-raising flour, caster sugar, eggs and softened butter in a bowl together. Mix it until there are no more lumps of butter left. 
• Add the baking soda to the mixture.
• Transfer the cake batter from the bowl to the prepared cake tin and level the surface gently.
• Place the tin in the oven for about 20-25 minutes or until the top is a nice golden brown colour. 
• Once out of the oven, let the cake cool down completely.
• In the meantime, whisk up the double cream until its thickened and transfer it to a piping bag.
• Once the cake is completely cooled, carefully slice the cake using a bread knife. 
• At this stage you can apply the jam and pipe the cream to the base of the cake if you want to keep it as a whole instead of the minis. 
• If you want to make minis, use a cutter that you feel is of the right size for both the layers of the cake individually. From the cake that I made, I got 7 sandwiches in total.
• Once you have all the individual mini cakes, apply a layer of the jam to half the minis and over the jam, pipe the cream as you wish.
• Place the second layers of the sponge over the piped cream and sprinkle some caster sugar over the tops.

There you have it, Victoria Sponge Cake Minis!