Name: Gaby's Victoria sandwich
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 140g butter softened; 140g caster sugar; 2 eggs; 140g plain flour; 1 tsp baking powder; 1-2 tsp milk; 100g butter very soft; 140g icing sugar plus extra for dusting; 2-3 tbsp strawberry or raspberry jam; hundreds and thousands to decorate

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Gaby's Victoria sandwich

Gaby's Victoria sandwich

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Serves 8

Easy

Prep: 30 mins

Cook: 20 mins

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Seven-year-old Gaby shares her special Victoria sandwich recipe - a great cake for Mother's Day

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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140g butter

softened
140g caster sugar
2 eggs
140g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
1-2 tsp milk

For the filling

100g butter

very soft
140g icing sugar

plus extra for dusting
2-3 tbsp strawberry or raspberry jam
hundreds and thousands

to decorate

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal439
fat25g
saturates16g
carbs55g
sugars41g
fibre0g
protein2g
salt0.58g

low

Method

step 1

Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Grease and line 2 x 20cm sandwich tins. Beat the butter and sugar together with an electric whisk until fluffy. Beat in the eggs, followed by the flour and baking powder. Add enough milk to the mixture so that it falls off a spoon easily. Divide between the tins and bake for 20 mins or until a skewer comes out clean. Turn the cakes out onto a wire rack and cool.
step 2

To make the filling, beat the butter until smooth, then gradually beat in icing sugar. Spread butter cream on one cake up to the edges. Spread a layer of strawberry jam on top. Put the second cake on top and squash it down so the butter cream sticks out a bit. Press hundreds and thousands onto the butter cream with a teaspoon. This is messy, so put the cake plate on a tray to catch any that escape. Dust the top with icing sugar, if you like.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, April 2011

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