Victoria Sandwich (Frugal Version)

Ingredients

• 6 oz baking margarine
• 6 oz granulated sugar
• 2 eggs
• 6 oz SR flour
• 2 teaspoons baking powder
• whipped cream and jam, if desired

Method

Heat oven to 190C/fan 170C/gas 5

• Cream together margarine and sugar.
  I soften mine in the microwave.
• Sift flour (for a better result) and beat eggs.
• Add the eggs a little at a time along with 2 tablespoons of the flour and mix it into the margarine and sugar mixture-adding the flour stops the mix from curdling.
• Add the rest of the flour after all of the eggs have been added.
  Add vanilla extract or flavouring if you wish. Bake gas mark 5 until slightly shrinking from the edges of the tins.
• I have 8 inch tins which I spray with sunflower oil and line the bottom with greaseproof paper.
• When you take the cakes out from the oven, make sure they are fairly cool before you take them from the tins.
• I insert a knife around the edges of the tin first to make it easy to release the cake.
• Then tip onto a wire rack to cool.
  Today I have filled mine with home made marmalade.
• Add the whipped cream and jam, if desired

Approx cost: 70p