Chocolate Victoria Sponge Cake

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A Victoria Sponge, or Victoria Sandwich is a very popular cake in the UK.  It is one of my favourites, when baked correctly, as it has a lovely lightness to the sponge and a very tasty jam and buttercream filling. 

I made one such cake which turned out well, but I then went one step further and made a chocolate version.  For this I found a Paul Hollywood recipe, on Waitrose’s website .  

Happily it turned out well and certainly was enjoyed by the tasters when I delivered it to them.  In fact it was devoured very quickly indeed.  That’s always a good indication of how it tasted.

Chocolate Victoria Sponge Cake
 
Chocolate Victoria Sponge – sliced
  • Preparation time:20 minutes
  • Cooking time:20-25 minutes
  • Total time:45 minutes 
Serves: 10
Ingredients
 
For the cake:
  • 4 medium eggs – weighed in their shell (about 245g)
  • The weight of the eggs in butter, softened (about 245g)
  • The weight of the eggs in caster sugar (about 245g)
  • The weight of 3 eggs in Waitrose extra fine sponge flour (about 185g)
  • The weight of 1 egg in cocoa powder (about 63g)
  • 1 tsp baking powder
  • Splash of milk
 
For the chocolate butter cream filling:
  • 75g softened butter  THIS WAS NOT ENOUGH, I  ADDED MORE
  • 225g sieved icing sugar
  • 60g dark chocolate – melted
  • 1 tbsp icing sugar mixed with 1 tsp cocoa powder to dust the top of the cake.
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 180C, gas mark 4. Grease and base line two 21cm loose bottom cake tins. Cream the butter and sugar together until pale and fluffy. Beat the eggs together. Gradually add to the creamed butter and sugar until well incorporated.
2. Sieve the flour, cocoa and baking powder together.  Fold into the mixture. Add a splash of milk to loosen the mixture if it’s too stiff.
3. Divide the mixture between the two prepared tins. Smooth over the surface so it’s level. Bake for 20-25 minutes. The cake should be springy to touch and have shrunk from the sides of the tin. Leave to cool in the tins for a few minutes, and then remove from the tins and leave to cool on a wire rack.
4. To make the filling, beat the butter with the icing sugar until smooth. Pour in the melted chocolate and stir. Add 1tbsp milk if needed to make more spreadable.

5. When the cakes are completely cold, sandwich together with the chocolate butter cream. Place the icing sugar and cocoa powder in a sieve and dust over the top of the cake.

1 Comment

  1. I like the sound of this cake as I too love Victoria Sandwich Cake and I love chocolate. However, the one thing I would say about this recipe is the size of eggs you are using. It would be better if you used Large Eggs rather than the medium sized eggs you have used. I got this tip from Delia Smith and she always makes good cakes. I hope you don's mind my mentioning this. Give it a try and see how the cake turns out the next time. Best Wishes and Happy Baking to you from June Brown.

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