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.

Sod the bloody cakes it's the flowers I'm grrr at

Sorry, I can't do name changing, I have only just managed to post on here after nearly two years!

namechangers...Mners in cahoots.....

Its all intrigue, mirrors and smoke here I can tell you.

ahaaaaaar Bibis, thats just the sort of thing a devlish namechanger would say

If it came down to votes you would have my second one Slubber (after Tigi of course) .

I can assure you I don't do intrigue

What does it take for you to believe me? I PROMISE I aint a name changer

Flattery will get you somewhere in improving my opinion of you Bibis

I'm jealous of those sweet peas too mine are really struggling even though they are in a very sheltered back yard. Planted them at the end of April and they still aren't even 6 inches tall yet

Have just looked on your profile, gosh you are young (I am just a few years older than you) and you music selection is unique

Yes, keep going.

If you want you can comment on my footwear and highly polished kitchen table in the cake photos. .

The sweat peas have only taken off in the last week or so with the alternating weather of rain/muggy days.

I won't even deign to comment on the accusations of name-changing - pah!

Howver, I thought we could use any jam as long as it was red, and the judges marked down on stinginess?

I'm still watchig you MrsT

3rd mention of jam now.......

(It's made with balsamic vinegar, it's very good...)

Have just been on picture trail Slubber and I have to say your complexion is to die for - yellow fever i would say.

Your floor and surfaces look a lot cleaner and clearer than ours

Sadly the rabbits have taken a shine to my sweetpeas, I am searching for a ferret man to take a shine to the rabbits

i'm desperately resorting to abotage tactics (although fully aware that this could backfirs)
new pics on profile - i seem to have a bizarre prob with pic from effort no. 1 - it keeps uploading a pic from a diff folder instead of the cake in all the pink stuff!
sahll have to ask dh but he will mutter darly & take over the computer so may not mention it tonight.

thread hijack - what kind of flooring is it slubber? is it karndean by any chance?
hijack over

re :white raspberries. do they not exist? white peaches & cherries do. but jam made from them does not look like butter icing

Nice KAA,

is that mild zittage I spot there?

I cannot believe how much I want that Rosette.

KAA re floor, they are beige tiles. That is all I know (I didn't put them in). They need a bastard lot of mopping is something I do know.

ok, just investigating flooring for new bathroom & we can't have tiles. think i need a new thread about decorating stuff somewhere.

UCM - do you have any books left from the book swap thingy - if yes, could you pop over to the current thread & have a look?

Some points of detail please Ladies.

Slubber: Using the HFW Scientific Method of Egg-Weighing, 7" or 8" tins? I note that the sainted Delia calls for 7" tins but these are almost unobtainable now. Although perhaps I should press on in my search for them on the grounds of nostalgic value.

Mrs Tweedy: Have your sweet peas been particularly prey to insect attack this year and, if so, what have you used to treat them.

What a sensible, up-lifting and useful thread.

With the HFW recp. using 2 eggs, I have been using my new 7" tins from Lakeland.

(Don't touch their bacoliner thingmys with a barge pole, bloody hideous nightmare)

slubber - i thought you sorted that by cutting thm to shape?

i must confess, i'm seriously considering new tins now - my ones are over 15 years,very thin & with no teflon!

Nope, they are shoved right at the back of my 'items related to baking' cupboard. I returned to the cake release product which is fab and doesn't involve me cutting out paper or trimming anything.