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

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.

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

Cocoa butter- not on your life!

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

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...

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

you want Chat then.

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

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

Ergh, on its own, not it's

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

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

Hmm cake

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

Auto correct fail *unreasonable...

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

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

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

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

Hooray. I am an anarchist! My night improves.

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.

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.

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

Just do icing sugar?

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

Yes, I suspected chocolate was wrongness. Perfectly put!