Rules for Village Show Victoria Sponge Cake

[Slubberdegullion]

So I am taking the plunge and am going to enter a Victoria Sponge Cake into our local village show.

I'm not pussy-footing around with lemon curd. Oh no, straight into the Blue Riband event.

But I am a little afraid as I know there are rules. And these rules are not written down. If you have to ask, well you shoudn't be entering (well that's what I am sensing).

So I'm going to ask in happy annonymity here.

Size (18 or 20cm)?
Butter or marg?
What type of jam?
Cream filling?
Icing sugar or caster sugar on the top?
Doilly? (Sp?)

Seasoned village show entrants (or judges) your help gladly recieved.

[MrsFish]

Pastry is one thing I can not get right, so a pastry thread would be good

[Pidge]

I'm going to be restricting my baking obsession too - I did the London marathon this year, but now my running shoes are gathering dust somewhat, I can ill afford to eat this quantity of pudding/cake without becoming distinctly blobby!

[SlightlyMadScientist]

Did you see teh cake decorating on the Great British Village show today. The map of wales was Shite. Which one won. When I last saw it they were getting a third jusdge in to deliberate between that tall green thing (not actually sure what it was) and the little lady cakes.

[MrsFish]

Thankyou will try that out.

[Slubberdegullion]

SMS the welsh woman cake won.

[francagoestohollywood]

slubber, have you just won the competition???

[Slubberdegullion]

yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Village Show here I come!

[Pidge]

Congratulations!!!!

I made strawberry ice cream today - halving the recipe because we just had some left over strawbs that I was using up - unfortunately I forgot to halve the quantity of sugar. Methinks the kids are going to love it!

[bohemianbint]

Sorry, latecomer to this fantastic thread but just wanted to say, re doily, that there was a whole programme on Radio 4 the other day devoted to the use and etiquette of doilies. With Janet Ellis. Sorry, I can't remember what the upshot was, other than that you should probably eschew any doilies with Wayne Ronney's face on.

Sorry, not much use after all but fascinated by the kind of person who would buy a Wayne Rooney doily...

[whomovedmychocolate]

Get one from Waitrose....bash it a bit. Eh voila!

[yummyyummymummy]

Hi I got a lovely vinatage cake stand at a webiste called www.mrs-cakestand.com and it was free postage!

[SacharissaCryptlock]

I need to know the outcome. Even though it was 3 years ago!

Well, Slubber, did you win?

[SlubberOnAMission]

I came second (out of a field of 13 or 14 - a BIG field anyway) but a placing nonetheless.

I still have the little certificate somewhere.

[SHRIIIEEEKPoolingBearBlood]

how odd :)
well done slubber

[SlubberOnAMission]

I lost out to a cake that imvo had a dry looking crust.

Not that I bear a grudge 3 years on or anything.

[TrillianAstra]

Well done Slubs!

What were the rules in the end? Were they rules or just tradition that a cake with cream in the middle never won?

(didn't actually read whole thread, resuscitating a 'village fete' thread in November is always suspicious)

[StealthPolarBear]

not that you're bitter :o
Shall I go an resurrect a thread from 2006 and see how many people I can sucker in?

[SlubberOnAMission]

Trillian rules are no cream, rasp jam, caster sugar dusting. everything else is fully open to personal sponge artistic licence.

SPB do the Robert Palmer is death thread. Someone always falls for that 'really how sad ' when he has been dead for aeons.

[StealthPolarBear]

go on then, I will do my best :)

[Indith]

I came second with my Victoria Sandwich .

[SlubberOnAMission]

lol Indith. A second is still second even in a field of 4. well done

[GuyFawkesIsMyLoveSlave]

I saw that this thread had been resurrected and thought "Oooh, I wonder whether Slubber won in the end?". Glad to see that others wondered the same thing and that Slubber was on hand to answer promptly...

[StealthPolarBear]

didn't you come second and third??
I think that's even better :)

[SlubberOnAMission]

For the fullness of the record I came first with my cookies and received two further seconds for my jar of 5 fresh herbs and ugliest vegetable.

any anyway I didn't resurrect this, Sacharissa did, a few weeks ago . and it's only polite to answer when you come across it when you are searching your name to see if anyone missed you while you took a break accidentally.