Journey Through the Wizard's Kitchen: Golden Victoria Sponge Sandwich Cake (from Ron)

The recipe we did this time was the Victoria Sponge Sandwich Cake which the author imagine Ron sent to Harry for his Birthday. We wonder if Ron made it himself? Though we doubt it. It was probably Molly. :)

Again, we swam that day too, so ignore the bathing suits. :)

The Ingredients

The First Step

Measuring the flour, sugar, and salt.

KCE working as a team!

Whisking!

We just really liked this pic because of how shiny the bowl is. :D

Mixing and Beating (seems like we might be talking about music now...)

Cracking an Egg

The Batter

This is how it looked right before we put it in the pan.

Oops!

C might've accidentally dropped the spatula. Good thing we were done using it!

Right before the oven.

Warning: Do not use wax paper in the oven! It will burn.

The recipe called for parchment paper and as we had none, we were going to substitue with wax paper. Good thing K's mom looked it up online first!

Tip: If you don't have parchment paper, cooking spray (Pam) works just fine!

Into the Oven

Probably should have used oven mitts or pot holders here, but no burns were gotten!

Clean Up

These are all the dishes we made in the process. Fortunately it was less than when we made the muffins.

Baking

The cookbook called for two round pans, to layer the cake later. However, we just put all the batter in one bigger pan and stacked pieces of cake ourselves.

Out of the Oven

So the cake may have looked slanted and been thicker on one side, but it still worked! And this recipe lived up to it's name as well. Up close it really did look like a songe!

Slicing

K cutting the first piece of cake!

Almost there!

The recipe called for raspberry jam, but as none of had any, we had to substitute with peach jam or cherry preserves, both of which were yummy! Though we are in agreement that the cherry was slightly better.

The Peach Jam!