Victoria Sponge

This delicious dessert is a cake which has flour, sugar and eggs as main ingredients. It was originally known as the "Sponge Cake", why Sponge? This is quite simple, it has this name due to it´s similarity to a Sea Sponge.

One of the variations of this initial "Sponge Cake" is the "Victoria Sponge", which was obviously named after Queen Victoria, who used to have this tempting cake during her afternoon tea. The main differences from the first "Sponge Cake" would be the addition of raspberry jam and either whipped double cream or vanilla cream, in other words it is way less healthy than the first one, but seems much more delicious.

Other names for this "royal" dessert would be "Victorian Sandwich", which is named this way because of the fact that the jam and the cream are both sandwiched between two pieces of this cake, which are normally covered in sugar as we can see in the picture; and it can be also known as the "Victorian Cake", although this term is less common.



Something curious about this cake is that, as it is very sensitive for cooking times and temperatures, most of the oven manufacturers usually use this recipe in order to test their products!