Ben Miller's Victoria Sponge Recipe | Food

Gordon Ramsay

Date Published:: 12/05/2008

Ben Miller and Gordon went head-to-head in a cake-off. Says Ben: "It is important you weigh your 3 eggs as you will need to weigh out the flour, butter and sugar to match."

An average egg weighs 50g, so on that basis the recipe would be as follows...

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. Cook at 150°C for 45 mins. Remove from the oven, carefully place on a wire rack. After 10 minutes cut the cake in half horizontally, open the halves out and allow to cool for a further 20 minutes.

6. 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.

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The recipe states that the eggs should be weighed because the rest of the ingredients should match the weight of the eggs. Each egg weighs approx 50g, if 3 are used then surely the weight of the flour & sugar should be 150g and not 50g.

Posted by tdy on 29/08/2009 23:01:07

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The cake I baked followed the above receipe was a disaster, a you sure it should be 3 eggs and not 1???

Posted by Renata Humphrey on 09/08/2009 14:29:39

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This recipe is clearly confusing and wrong !! what a waste of time money and ingredients . Do not use it, should be 150g of everything to 3 eggs . mine went straight in the bin looked and tasted awful. had to go out and buy a cake when I wanted it to be personal !! Cant believe this has ramsys name associated !!! What a load of ....****** .

Posted by nat on 27/05/2009 15:19:43

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Normally a victoria sponge cake is made with the flour (self raising, not plain), butter and sugar in equal proportions, however it's also known as a 100g cake. 1 or 2 eggs (dependant on size) 100g s/r flour, 100g butter, 100g sugar. Margerine is slightly better than butter for the texture of the cake, but often it's a more rich flavour that makes people use butter instead. To get the cake *perfect* takes a few tries, though generally the 100g rule is a good one to follow!

Posted by Amy on 07/05/2009 13:49:00

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Who won the cook off? I missed the end of the show. The amounts will be the total of the eggs combined.

Posted by Carolyn on 02/05/2009 01:13:59

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Who won the cook-off? I assume Gordon as this cake was pretty bad as Lou posted previously. Thin and rubbery, really not nice at all. Where's Gordon's recipe? hehe

Posted by Mel on 23/04/2009 21:41:54

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Hi there Thanks for your comments. Ben Miller's recipe does indeed make only one sponge, which is then cut in half to make the Victoria sponge recipe. Kind regards 4Food Ed

Posted by 4Food Ed on 30/03/2009 16:45:37

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There is steps missing obviously, but it does say at the begining 'Grease 1 tin' so I can only assume bake 1 & then cut in half to fill.

Posted by Apply logic on 09/03/2009 15:36:17

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Indeed 50g each of butter/sugar/flour was not enough. I tried to make this for my son's birthday cake & it was a disaster. I ended up with 2 greasy pancakes that were permanently welded to the greaseproof paper. They didn't taste very good either & so ended up in the bin - what a waste of time & ingredients. I reverted to my mother-in law's recipe in the end (4 eggs, 8oz each of butter/sugar/flour. - Much nicer.

Posted by Lou on 25/02/2009 14:33:46

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There seems to be a section missing relating to the cooking of the cake? Step 4 tells us to use a palette knife to spread out the cake mix in the tin, and step 5 tells us to whip the cream and put the cake together?!

Posted by Mark on 22/01/2009 13:03:34

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50g each of butter/sugar/flour does not sound enough for 2 sponges?

Posted by Toni on 22/12/2008 11:55:51

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