Mini VictoriaspongesPaula Fazekas’s latest post. Reply Victoria stockley says. They’re sturdily made unlike some of the cheaper spatulas that tend to bend after being washed and don’t scrape the sides properly
VictoriaSponge. I know, it sounds positively Dickensian, but in all fairness, when was the last time you went to a cafe and managed to resist a slice of a beautiful, fullsome, icing-sugar-dusted sponge
I have come up with three alternatives for afternoon tea that are a little different from scones, sandwiches, victoriasponge and copious buckets of tea
The origin of this cake is England and it is said that it was named in honour of the marriage of Princess Victoria, grand daughter of Queen Victoria to Prince Louis of Battenberg
The recipe suggests the use of a cream-cheese frosting, but as I had no cream cheese I replaced the cream cheese withbutter and made a butter icing (my favourite)
There is something so elegant, delicate and pretty about cakes with flowers in, and although I would never personally opt for a floral sponge if chocolate and port cake was on offer, I can recognise that, for others, flowery food brings them as much pleasure as ginger does me
