To put a cocoa butter topping on a Victoria sponge?

[SenoritaViva]

With a raspberry jam filling? I need to ice a message of thanks and have run out of vanilla essence as I was planning to make a vanilla butter cream. Any suggestions welcome.

TIA

[KobayashiMaru]

Cocoa butter as in the cream used on your stretchmarks? I wouldn't.

By the way, there is a whole section for recipes, and another just for baking. This isn't an aibu.

[ClaraOswald]

Do you mean a choc buttercream? If so, yes.

Cocoa butter- not on your life!

[Edendance]

Just do icing sugar and butter and maybe some colouring? It doesn't need to be flavoured if you don't have any!

[SenoritaViva]

Of course not. Cocoa butter cream, although that did make me laugh!

I realise there is a baking section but the cake is just coming out of the oven. Firstly better traffic here and secondly I thought that canvassing people's opinions was what I wanted. Nice or grim essentially...

[SenoritaViva]

Having a glass of wine while baking and posting has made me ridiculous in my cocoa butter suggestion. Oops!

[KobayashiMaru]

you want Chat then.

I wouldn't use choc buttercream on a vic sponge though.

[CaptainUndercrackers]

I'd do plain buttercream (icing sugar & butter) with jam, or chocolate buttercream on it's own. Either would be lovely :)

[CaptainUndercrackers]

Ergh, on its own, not it's

[SenoritaViva]

I love you captain (for your correction). The wine IS helping with that!

[MrsBertMacklin]

I wouldn't put chocolate on a Vic sponge, what about making raspberry buttercream instead?

[LoveBeingUpAt4InTheMorning]

Hmm cake

[CoolaSchmoola]

You can post anywhere you like, and it is Utterly to suggest that there is a right and wrong place to post.

[CoolaSchmoola]

Auto correct fail *unreasonable...

[SenoritaViva]

Mrsbert - how would I make raspberry butter cream? Yum!

[KobayashiMaru]

of course there is a right and wrong place to post, what do you want, anarchy?

[SenoritaViva]

Thanks coola. Wouldn't want to puss off the AIBU folk!

[isitsnowingyet]

I would opt for plain icing (not choc or cocoa) with raspberry jam filling. A serious matter indeed, cake always is.

[SenoritaViva]

Hooray. I am an anarchist! My night improves.

[hatgirl]

step AWAY from tho cocoa powder. In this weather may I suggest a light sprinkling of icing sugar over the top and a fancy flag saying THANKS!!! made from a cocktail stick and some paper sticking out of the top.

[MrsBertMacklin]

Make your buttercream and put a teaspoon of raspberry jam in to flavour it at the point you'd normally add the vanilla extract. Add another teaspoon if you want more flavour.

[hatgirl]

or a used ice lolly stick if you are not suave enough to have cocktail sticks handy

[bigkidsdidit]

Just do icing sugar?

[EhricLovesTeamQhuay]

Don't put chocolate on a Victoria sponge. Wrongness.

[SenoritaViva]

Yes, I suspected chocolate was wrongness. Perfectly put!