Baking ingredients
- 225 g unsalted butter - softened
- 225 g caster sugar
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 4 large eggs
- 200 g self-raising flour
- 25 g cornflour
- 3 tbsp milk
Decorating ingredients
- 250 g Navy Blue Ready to Roll Icing
- 250 g White Ready to Roll Icing
- 250 g Ruby Red Ready to Roll Icing
- 4 tbsp raspberry jam
- 125 g unsalted butter - softened
- 400 g icing sugar
- 3 tbsp milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Renshaw products used
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Instructions
Baking Instructions:
Step 1
Preheat the oven to 180°C / 350°F / gas mark 4.
Step 2
Cream the butter and caster sugar and add one teaspoon of vanilla extract.
Step 3
Add the eggs, one at a time, adding a spoonful of flour between each.
Step 4
Fold in the rest of the self-raising flour and cornflour and when mixed in, add 3-4 tablespoons of milk.
Step 5
Pour the batter into two 21cm round cake tins and bake for about 25 minutes until a cake skewer comes out clean.
Step 6
Leave cakes in their tins on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then turn out on the wire rack and leave to cool completely.
Decorating Instructions:
Step 7
Put one layer of the cake on a plate and spread the top with 4 tablespoons of raspberry jam.
Step 8
To make buttercream, put the butter into a mixing bowl and beat until creamy in colour and light in texture. Sift the icing sugar into the bowl and combine, then add 3-4 tablespoons of milk and one teaspoon of vanilla extract and beat until smooth.
Step 9
Take half the prepared buttercream and spread on the bottom of the top layer of the cake.
Step 10
Place the buttercream covered cake layer on top of the jam covered cake layer, sandwiching the buttercream and raspberry jam together.
Step 11
Knead the blue icing until pliable before rolling out. Lightly dust your work surface with icing sugar and roll out icing to desired thickness.
Step 12
Cover the Victoria Sponge with a thin layer of the remaining buttercream. Lift the icing over the cake smoothing down the sides with the palm of your hand.
Step 13
Trim excess icing. To give a sheen to the surface, smooth with the palm of your hand.
Step 14
Knead the white icing until pliable before rolling out. Lightly dust your work surface with icing sugar and roll out icing to desired thickness. Cut two strips 3cm wide and long enough to go over the cake.
Step 15
Place one of the strips across the cake. Trim at the base of the cake and stick to the blue icing with cooled boiled water. Place the second strip across the cake so it looks like a cross and again trim at the base of the cake.
Step 16
Cut off the icing that overlaps with the first strip at the centre of the cross.
Step 17
Cut a further two strips of white icing, each 1.5cm wide, and place and stick on a diagonal across the cake. Trim at the base of the cake and cut off the overlapping white strips.
Step 18
Repeat the process with the red icing. Cut the first two strips 1cm wide and the diagonal strips 1cm wide. Trim and stick on top of the white icing with cooled boiled water, again cutting off any overlaps.
