Victoria Sponge Cake competition

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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 think my cake tins are too big.

i gott asay though.
after tasting it...
if there's a choice between good old LDC and vicky sponge I'd go for LDC every day of the week and twice on sunday.

my pics are up here

I look like an amply norked matron with a pinhead . I am really a size 10...

My word that was curdlede PurpleMOkey (was it you complaining of curdling).

Looks like a good texture though. NO wormholes or zits.

Purplemonkey, your wedge looks good.

Your cake mix is a tad scary....and there is a hand whisk in that bowl....did you put it in there in an attempt to pass yourself off as a hand creamer....or are you indeed a puritanical non mechanical whisk woman?

Hand creaming is the only way to go - did you not know. But tis a wooden spoon you need not a flimsy whisk.

I thought about hand creaming, but went with the hand mixer in the end and found it didn't make much difference to the end result. Adding a couple of spoons after the egg does prevent curdling though.

So Slubber will you be grilling the MN winner to feed you village comp efforts?

Well SMS if you win I certainly won't be grilling you.

Creaming with a wooden spoon I don't think so.

A hand whisk is bad enough...but a wooden spoon........

Well I don't care if you don't wantr my knowledge.

I have once been paid £15 for my VSC you know.

who was offering to pay.....your mum?

Apologies, apologies, this rather elegant cab sav I am currrentlt drinking is making me feisty.

SMS if you can get air in to your creamed sugar & butter with a wooden spoon then you win the prize for the fastest and most powerful whisker in all of MN.
You must have a very muscular arm.

perchance SMS is a hairy handed trucker?

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No I was paied by a friend for aB'day cake for her boyfriend. I can even get a choc cake to rise with just the power in my arm

(mental note, never attempt hand to hand combat with SMS on any thread in the future).

Oh dear I now have to go and have serious conversations with serious village ladies in my book club in my compltly accidental, moderately drunken state.

loved the pics!! Just been browsing...

hm, just made a second cake - with the cat shut outside, but still not turning out as smoothly as i like.
have taken phots but need training from dh to put them on here & he's at work

it was indeed a hand whisk and a tiny one at that.
hence the very curdled batter!
DH thought it was ok!

who will be judging it?

Am not involved at all in this competition (too scared) but needed to say: you are using whisks? Surely beating the butter and sugar with a wooden spoon is The Only Way? Leaves me with a dead arm but my cream is lovely and pale (not that I'm having MNers judge my efforts oh no)

MrsCake aka Twiglett is judging, i understand.

Does anyone know how well vsc freezes? Would like to make more, but we wouldn't eat it fast enough!