Hey everyone!
What an exciting week! I have been busy filming the new episode and spreading the word about Steemit. Soo much fun creating my beautiful STEEM cake! Today I will show you how to make it at home.
Great news, I got my first Steemit shirt and Milo was curios how it looked....
I am so grateful to everyone who left me lovely comments and up voted my first introduction post.
I hope you enjoy this video tutorial on my Victoria sponge cake with raspberry jam and fresh cream. I posted this to my Youtube and I cant wait for new people to join the platform. I have already been bombarded with loads of messages about the platform. Watch the video here: YAY!!!
I have also made a short 60 second clip for Facebook and posted it on my page. It has already reached 25,000 people and has 8,100 views.
It has also been re-shared by other food pages,which further spreads the word! It's incredible :)
Ingredients :
For the cake:
250 gr OR 1 cup + 2 tbsp of unsalted butter
250 gr OR 1 1/4 cup of caster sugar
250 gr OR 1 2/3 cups + 1 tbsp of plain sifted flour
4 large eggs
10 gr OR 1 tbsp of baking powder
For the filling and decoration:
500 ml of double cream
3-4 tbsp of icing sugar
blue food colouring
strawberries
100 gr OR 1/2 cup of raspberry jam ( you can use more or less)
Directions:
Step 1 : In a stand mixer or you can do this with electric mixer, add your eggs, soft butter, sugar, flour and baking powder and mix well until just combined. Do not over mix the dough.
Step 2 : Preheat your oven to 190 C / 375 F.
Step 3 : Line two cake tins ( I used 20 cm / 8 inch) with some butter or cooking spray and parchment paper.
Step 4 : Divide the mixture between two tins equally. You can weight it so its definitely the same.
Step 5 : Bake in preheated oven for 25-35 min until they have risen, are golden and the toothpick comes out clean when you test the cake.
Step 6 : Cool the cakes for 20 min.
Step 7 : To make the cream, whisk your cold cream with icing sugar until nice and creamy.
Step 8 : Divide the cream into 3 bowl. Use about 2-3 tbsp of cream ( the one you will be using for colours ) Add food colouring into first bowl, mix until you get desired colour and do the same with the second one.
Step 9 : Spread the jam onto the sponge, then add second layer and coat the cake in cream. Write the logo and decorate with strawberries.
Step 9 : Cake keeps well in a fridge up to 3 days. Enjoy!
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Lots of love, Alla xxx
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