Victoria Sponge

The boy's favourite cake is Victoria Sponge. So instead of saving that until his birthday, I figured I'd whip one up today and make something more exciting for the birthday cake instead.

I got up early, and without any creaming of butter and sugar faff, blitzed together 8oz of self-raising, 5oz caster sugar, 5oz of butter and three eggs. I couldn't be bothered to look at a recipe, so guessed at quantities following a remembered sponge ratio of 8/4/4/2, but wanted to make this a little richer so upped the fun stuff of eggs, sugar and butter.

It worked out perfectly and I broke my usual moral of only adding jam in the centre and cream on after, because the boy insisted... and it is his favourite after all.

The photo doesn't do it justice, but the taste (having cut a slice just a little bit too big) was scrumptious.