Pieday Friday Recipe – Mini victoria sponge cakes full of yummy jam

I made these mini cake treats this week and thought I’d share the recipe with you. I was inspired by the February inspiration challenge on LucyLovesYa blog – the starting point was this vintage berry necklace below:

This necklace made me think of my pot of hedgerow jam that I’d made myself and I thought it would go nicely in a victoria sponge. But where’s the fun in making a normal sponge cake? So I set about trying to make mini sponge cakes in a muffin mould rather than a cake tin. Here’s how I got on:

Ingredients: 110g/4oz softened butter or margarine, 110g/4oz caster sugar, 2 free-range eggs, 1 tsp vanilla extract, 110g/4oz self-raising flour, 1-2 tbsp milk

1. Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas 4 and crease a silicone muffin mould. Cream the butter and sugar together in a bowl until pale. Beat in the eggs a little at a time and stir in the vanilla extract.
2. Fold in the flour using a large metal spoon, adding a little milk until the mixture is of a dropping consistency. Spoon the mixture into the muffin moulds until they are half full and bake for 10-15 minutes – but keep an eye on them and use a cocktail stick to test if they are gooey or cooked in the centre.
3. Remove from the muffin mould and once the cakes are cooled, cut them in half and spread with your homemade (or shop bought) jam – mine is hedgerow with apple and blackberry but strawberry jam would be equally yummy!
4. Mix up some buttercream using butter and icing sugar and a drop of vanilla extract and spread on the opposite side of your mini sponges.
5. Dust with icing sugar and serve to willing cake-testers.

I can safely say that these cakes were super-tasty and turned out to be exactly the right portion size for me. And hubby is pretty grateful to Lucylovesya because he got to scoff the lot! I’ll definitely be making these miniatures next time I have an afternoon tea party with my girlies and I know they’ll love them too!

PLUS good news! I’ve finally launched my Pieday Friday Recipe book and it’s completely FREE! Yes, my lovely readers can download their very own e-book of my favourite Pieday Friday recipes – here’s the link to preview the book – please email me [email protected] and I’ll send the E-book PDF file directly to you! There’s no catch, I just want to give something back to my lovely blog readers 🙂 and it’s National Pie Week – what more of an excuse do I need?!

More Pieday Friday Blog Posts:

• Pieday Friday Recipe – Cupcake surprise (cassiefairy.com)
• Pieday Friday Recipe – Baked Vanilla Cheesecake (cassiefairy.com)
• Pieday Friday Recipe – Coffee & Walnut Cupcakes (cassiefairy.com)

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