Starting Simple

I'll start off with a simple Victoria Sponge. 

This simple yet delicious sponge is easy to make and a great starter for an amateur baker, like myself :) 

The great thing about a simple cake like this one, is that you can easily adapt and change it to your preferred taste. 

With this cake, I used a simple all-in-one victoria sandwich cake recipe, so there was no messing around for creaming the butter first, blah blah blah... I find these quick, easy and simple recipes are so much better because they taste as good as the long winded ones but are so much for efficient to make :) 

Then once the cake is done, its all down to your choice. We decided to ad both whipped cream and strawberry jam. So they both went in the middle as the sandwich then the extra cream went on the top with the lovely fresh strawberry decoration. 

Of course, you could in fact use any other type of jam to create different flavours, for example raspberries or even citrus fruits. With citrus fruits I would recommend adding some of the juice into the cake mix and maybe even the cream, just to enhance the flavour even more. 

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