Baking a Victoria Sponge

This week’s baking creation was the traditional Victoria Sponge Cake a quintessential English teatime treat chosen by the residents.

Originally, the Victoria Sponge may have started in the nursery.  In the early Victorian period, afternoon tea consisted of seed cake and fruit cake. For safety reasons, it was believed that children should not eat cake containing pieces of fruit or seeds.

The light, harmless Victoria Sponge was prepared as a teatime treat for them instead. Only later on did it make its way to the adult tea table.