VICTORIA SPONGE help urgently needed!!!

[winnybella]

Right, so it's DS's birthday today and I decided to make Victoria sponge with fresh strawberries and whipped cream.

Now I have a few questions, please:

1. I haven't got 2 tins, I have one that's about 3 inches deep. Can I just make one sponge in it and then slice it? How do I need to adjust baking time for it?

1. Fold the flour in (and what does it mean?) or just whisk all ingredients together?

1. I thought I'll just do strawberries and cream, but almost all recipes use strawberry jam together with strawerries and cream. Thoughts?

1. How much vanilla sugar should I add to 50cl of cream? Or should I mix icing sugar with vanilla sugar?

TIA, I need to start baking in an hour.

slubber's Victoria knowledge is not better than mine

i am Queen of Victoria Sandwich

queen

Right answer, nickel, it is buttery.

Pheeeeeew. Thank you soooo much, all of you and Slubber especially for holding my hand as I was doing it.

Now, as long as it doesn't taste likean omelette....

What's lippage?

doily essential for village fete surely

sift some icing sugar over the top remember!

This thread has been compelling

@ cake wars

Will do, bouncingblueberries!

Might have to do my profile to show off my creation later- no clue how to, though. Where is it explained?

I suggested a high sift

Jeez

Hang on let me get my profile back.

Nickel mate I would be veeeeeeeery careful calling yourself queen of VSC. I hate to pull rank but you know. I WON ME ME ME I WON THE MN COMP. ME

Yes star trek Borg obv. The giant cake eating hive mind of mn poured into one winning recipe .

How can you have an MN competition? Does everyone bake their own and then vote? Or do you send weeny slices to everyone for judging?

< blown away at the thought of cake eating hive mind > I want In.

Profile now activated

Possibly

apologies slubber
I remembered the High Sift recently when making DS birthday cake. I ruined the effect somewhat by adding a tbsp rather than a tsp of bicarb. What a prize tit. It was a bit like salty space dust.

is that bags of cocaine next to your dog?

are you in fact, Borg? ( "activating" profile etc )

I only opened this thread to see how long it would take Nickel to come and complain about mislabelling of sponges [irrelevant]

Taffeta yes cakes were judged on looks alone but photographic evidence of the procedure was also required.

i didn't enter the cup.

Queens don't need to be validated. [tongue poking out]

ah, sod it:
[big sloppy kiss to Slubber]

Winny I'm sure it will be lovely. You need to set up a profile to upload your picture, in mymusnet. Up there

PerArdua - you know me too well and [bows]

Nickel, mine was step by step..... Chuck everything in, whisk, put in tins! How is that not step by step?

I am the queen of Vixtoria sponge cakes, oh yes sireee!

And stop sucking up to slubs, she is my fwend!

If anyone else comes in 'ere and claims to be queen of the VSC there is going to be TROUBLE.

Who was the head of the Borg ? that crazy lady with the nice bust.That's me that is, on a cuboid space craft made of baked products.

We need an mn bakathon Slubs

Yes

bella is my friend. She is part of the cake collective

I am 7 of 9. The one with a great rack that escaped the Borg.

I make nut cakes to die for. I find Vic sandwich/sponge a bit meh.

<a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=suvudu.com/files/2010/10/Borg-Queen.jpg&imgrefurl=sf-fantasy.suvudu.com/2010/10/cage-match-villains-9-borg-queen-versus-24-feyd-rautha-harkonnen.html&h=358&w=294&sz=31&tbnid=a8GJg5BeAAZzGM:&tbnh=121&tbnw=99&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dborg%2Bqueen&zoom=1&q=borg+queen&hl=en&usg=__gFVpSxCN-0FuiK0rTf8Ef9WHFWQ=&sa=X&ei=bD9ITbO8MsbKhAf1nvDrBA&sqi=2&ved=0CC4Q9QEwBQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">this you Slubber?

Looks like you need a slice of cake