Victoria Sponge Cake competition

[UCM]

Who wants to enter here please. This will be fab. Now we have to find some judges. I think we should put thread in chat and ask someone to judge based on their credentials Obviously they will be only looking at a pic not tasting. We need rules as well??? Good idea or not.

I'm in - pics will be up when I can get rid of DP...probably while he lies in tomorrow...

hmmm...i obviously used too little jam in the middle.
i've got more in the oven though!
i'm suddenly addicted to baking cakes.

Due to technical problems (ie no camera available..), am i allowed, with the words of Blue Peter style, to put one in that I made earlier..?

It was for a lady at work who was 50 the other week. Made 100% with my own fair hands. I love making (and sadly, eating) cake..

The details are as follows-

recipe I think was a 6,6,3 (or at most a 8,8,4)
Implements - electric whisk
Cake tins - buttered and floured
stuffing - buttercream and jam

go on tigi, stick it in, show us yer cake.

Purplemonkey, much like MN, cake baking has become for me also horribly addictive. Just one more tomorrow for my Dad's birthday/fathers day and that's it...cold VSC turkey for me. (well until the show of course).

Well, Mark II is definitely an improvement. No extra baking powder this time

here

Perhaps not. Its on our picturetrail anyway.

Ooh! UCM that's look lovely! Bet you're happy with that!

I am Jane. The other one was a complete disaster, but it was my fault for trying to get too bigger rise. Which I note you DO have on yours Dh has just said that this one is much lighter than the other one and much much better.

Yeah, I don't really know what happened there, fluke I think!! I never get a rise on my cakes! I'm scared of trying again now though incase I get Victoria biscuits back again!!! Glad Your DH approves!

okay - done it.it's on

WOW!! That's a cake and a half!!! My daughter would love that one!! She's 5 and loves anything pink!

I'm so pissed off. I can't enter this as my digi camera has gone missing. (and that's a whole other thread topic, believe me...)

I mean, a cake contest. In RL I am Queen of Cakes. I live, breathe and eat cake! (well, dur!)

It's practically my religion! (And it doesn't involve nailing anyone to a cross...)

Pah. May the best Domestic Goddess win.

Tigi, your cake looks amazing, it will be a fix if you don't win

Holy Moley tigi...that cake is amazing.

Doesn't quite meet WI VSC comp rules though (as dusting with icing sugar is out I think they might have a few issues with the pink swirly/cherries/candles effect)

FMV.

Do you have a mate with a camera who could pop round and take a pic?

Just checked out the new phots... they are fab! Slubbers, that one of you sifting... ROFLMAO!

Strangely enough, I considered having a framed piccie of Queenie with my cake, but my printer wasn't playing along...

I do have a fan of my cakes though

mates? real life ones? nah...

actually, I didn't think of that

I did lol a few posts back when yoyo asked if I had that picture up in my house all the time.

Yeah right, Queen Victoria has pride of place on my sideboard, next to the ones of Lady Baden Powell and David Cameron.

Thank you, thank you so much ladies for your kind words.

Am I the only non baking type who finds this thread completely fascinating!!!

Love it.

OK, JUST for this thread I have set up a profile page where the sage of cake attempt no 1 is in full view.
watch it if you dare.

i cant make another VSC, i have used all my eggs, butter and sugar.

and no chance of escaping to the shops either [sigh]

saga, not sage!