victoria jam sponge cake and home made pastry

[cherry]

well i start my new job on monday so im of to brush up on my cookery skills!! any tips for the two above?......

 

[Neen]

Hiya Hun! I have Mary Berrys cake book and everything comes out great.
This is a link for her vic sponge and it's the one I always use..use it for Birthday cakes too and they come out brilliant x

BBC - Food - Recipes : Mary Berry's perfect Victoria sandwich

 

[Rebirth]

I find Delia Smiths all in one victoria sponge recipe always comes out well. I use 6ozs of everything and 3 eggs. My youngest won the silver cake slice at aged 4/5 and my eldest came third, using this recipe. It caused uproar as the competition was for adults. They weren't disqualified as we had paid the entrance fee and no one knew until they had won. Quick change of prizes from bottle of wine to box of chocolates ensued.

Rebirth xx

 

[StephieAck]

When you are making your victoria sponge, whisk the egg whites up seperately and then fold them into the mix at the end before putting them in the cake tins, this makes mine very fluffy and mine are never flat cakes, they are always nice and fluffy and light. My victoria sponges always are very popular.
Good luck on Monday.
Steph xx

 

[dawny]

hey stephi, could you work out how to do a sort of bypasser friendly cake, with splenda instead of sugar, etc, im just thinking of maybe so that say at christmas if we fancy summat nice, we dont feel left out.

 

[tesmaralda]

make sure you pre heat the oven properly. Make your pastry before you put the oven on as you need the room and your hands to be a cool as possible. If your hands get to warm run your wrists under a cold tap until they cool down.

 

[Bev]

Make sure you rub flour on the rolling pin and dust the worksurface with flour to prevent the pastry from sticking... xxx

 

[phatmomma]

Asda do a cracking sponge, not tried their pastry's....

 

[StephieAck]

hey stephi, could you work out how to do a sort of bypasser friendly cake, with splenda instead of sugar, etc, im just thinking of maybe so that say at christmas if we fancy summat nice, we dont feel left out.

I was actually given the recipe for a bypass friendly fruit cake, I will ask the originator if I can email it to you xx
Steph xx

 

[dawny]

awthat brill thanks steph hun. fingers crossed they say its ok. hugs xx

 

[Calliope]

hi
my two pennys worth!...chill your pastry for at least 20 mins before rolling it out.

Wishing you all the best x x