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Gordon Ramsay recipes Ben Miller's victoria sponge recipe

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Gordon Ramsay

Date Published:: 12/05/2008

Ben Miller and Gordon went head-to-head in a cake-off. Here’s Ben’s version of tea-time favourite, victoria sponge

Serves 6-8

Ingredients

3 med eggs at room temp
50g organic caster sugar, plus extra for whipping cream
50g weight unsalted butter – at room temperature
50g weight organic self raising flour
Vanilla essence
Organic strawberry jam
300ml double cream, for whipping
1 dessert spoon icing sugar

Method: How to make Ben Miller's victoria sponge

1. Pre-heat the oven to 150°C.

2. Grease a 5 inch spring base baking tin with butter and line with baking parchment.

3. Using an electric whisk cream the butter and caster sugar together. Beat the eggs into the butter mix. Sieve the flour and fold into the cake mix using a metal spoon. Add a few drops of vanilla essence.

4. Pour in the cake mix and use a palette knife to spread it out evenly.

5. Whip the cream, add the icing sugar and a drop of vanilla essence. Use the palette knife to spread one side of the cake with the strawberry jam and the other with the cream. Carefully put the cake together, dust with icing sugar and serve.