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Victoria sponge part 1 – Jamie Oliver’s Home Cooking Skills


00:00:00okay I like to make a Victoria sponge

00:00:02cake the first thing we need to know

00:00:05about cakes is that you need to follow

00:00:07the measurements it’s really really

00:00:08important to wait all this stuff I

00:00:10really accurately otherwise you can’t

00:00:12just won’t work now something like a

00:00:13salad you know you can take one

00:00:14ingredient out put another one in

00:00:16doesn’t really matter it’s still gonna

00:00:17be a salad but a cake you’ve got to have

00:00:19this the right ingredients at the right

00:00:22measurements otherwise what you take her

00:00:24in the oven at the end of the day is not

00:00:25gonna be what you want

00:00:27okay so we got separating flour eggs

00:00:30castor sugar butter and we’re gonna have

00:00:34a little bit lemon zest in this cake at

00:00:36the end too so the first thing we need

00:00:38to get organized is the cake tins so Roy

00:00:41we needs just a ticket we need to take a

00:00:43ton a little bit of butter just a very

00:01:08thin layer of

00:01:19okay Roy what we need to do is to take

00:01:22the ring off and trace around the base

00:01:23of the cake tin with the pencil great

00:01:33and then we need to cut okay so you put

00:01:58your tin back together then you grease

00:02:06proof paper just fit in perfectly inside

00:02:15perfect so now you need a tiny little

00:02:18more butter and then rub it onto the

00:02:22grease just take a little pinch of flour

00:02:27and sprinkle it inside the tin fit the

00:02:30flour right there

00:02:32take a good pinch of it

00:02:37it could be even more generous than that

00:02:39if you like good pinch lovely I know you

00:02:46need to shake it all around the tin to

00:02:48make sure all of the butter get some

00:02:50flour stuck to it yep okay cool

00:03:03and then you just tip out any of the

00:03:05extra flour you don’t want into that boy

00:03:15okay so cake tins ready

00:03:18pop them over here okay guys right who’s

00:03:26gonna make the cake great right so look

00:03:30in here we got the sugar so the butter

00:03:33goes in there we allowed a little bit

00:03:35extra butter for the rubbing of the tins

00:03:38so those would be just the right amount

00:03:39no thanks and going here and this is it

00:03:46makes I’m gonna use okay so they go give

00:03:50it a little taste

00:04:04we’re gonna start adding the eggs right

00:04:08so rod you want to crack one egg in

00:04:10there it’s four eggs and stalks are

00:04:11going in but what we need to do just

00:04:13keep all the richer for eggs and filter

00:04:15going in but what we’re gonna do is do

00:04:17one at a time all right great

00:04:21one again no you need to mix that in

00:04:23short reach the eggs in gradually

00:04:42fantastic

00:04:43right now we’re going straight down the

00:04:45side of the bowl with a spatula just to

00:04:47make sure we get all of the all of the

00:04:49mixture down at the bottom there so that

00:04:52when we mix the egg in it mixes with

00:04:54everything okay perfect right now you

00:04:58need to sift a little of the flour while

00:05:00you continue to mix sure do it with it

00:05:02but do it with a spatula this time you

00:05:05mix the mixture too hard with a flier

00:05:06and it comes the cake go hard so

00:05:08whatever you do now with the flour has

00:05:10to be done really gently great and we’re

00:05:15sifting it in just to make sure there’s

00:05:17no lumps of flour off so you don’t want

00:05:18a nasty lump of flour Olivia cake

00:05:48okay no just let me show you how to how

00:05:50to fold the plate the minutes stirring

00:05:53around and run with that it works that’s

00:05:55okay but then proper way of doing it is

00:05:57just a right round flip the mixture over

00:06:00short scoop okay

00:06:09that’s called folding right so you need

00:06:13to get the rest of the flour in there

00:06:31one time okay but I need to make some

00:06:36fish or you can’t see any bits of flour

00:06:38there just scoop right down to science

00:06:40right in there

00:06:49it’s great and as soon as you’ve seen

00:06:51the all the flowers in there that’s when

00:06:53to stop mixing this cake is good to call

00:07:00right now but you can add spices into

00:07:02the cake mix if you like or in this case

00:07:04we’re gonna add a little bit of lemon

00:07:05zest so that’s great if you stop now so

00:07:09if you take the lemon you just grate the

00:07:11zest in so we called the great foot

00:07:12above did the mix I’m just grate a

00:07:19little bit of lemon zester so if he taps

00:07:24the grater with the lemon it should all

00:07:26fall off the bank and as this cake makes

00:07:29that taste it’s gonna give it a lovely

00:07:31lemony flavor so you can do this for

00:07:34ginger you can do it with cinnamon mix

00:07:35spice vanilla lemon and orange zest is

00:07:39very nice I think that’s fantastic

00:07:42that’s just enough right Shawna you need

00:07:44to mix that lemon zest into the cake mix

00:07:46and we’re ready to go into the tins that

00:07:51looks great okay really I need to divide

00:08:04the mixture evenly between the tins

00:08:38let’s write it out a little bit close

00:08:41the ends

00:08:57okay lovely and we need to fill this one

00:09:01up too

00:09:33see you can scrape any extra bits out

00:09:35there runs as loads in there so just

00:09:45fighting down the top of each one and

00:09:48then we’ll get Munir

00:09:57that’s great you can use these together

00:10:09just Swedish slightly

00:10:19yeah we’re nearly ready gone the other

00:10:21guy’s last thing to do is just scrape

00:10:23any mix from let’s go off the side of

00:10:26the cake

00:10:26scrape it down was it might burn in the

00:10:30other great and when you finish that the

00:10:43oven trunk behind you and it’s ready and

00:10:45hot so you can probably cater

00:10:51oh sorry buy something on that top shelf

00:10:53I think I name Zapatera Victoria sponge

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