Help With Victoria Sponge...

[chokkie]

HI folks, can anyone offer any help, please ... just made 3 sponges for a 3-layer Victoria sponge. made the mix in the usual way (6 eggs, 6 oz flour etc), but when I was dividing the mixture between the 3 greased and lines sponge tins, it didn't look very much in the tin - when I've made them identically before, there has been loads of mix in the tin. Anyway, baked them as usual, and when they came out of the tin, I just had three sponges which resembled pancakes. Felt like Jonathan Ross on the Celebrity red nose bake off episode last week!

Can anyone out there tell me what I did wrong? I know I used self-raising flour, may be i overmixed the batter?

I'm going to make them again (and thankfully they are not wanted for ages), but it's not like me at all for a cake to go wrong!

Cheers, chox.

[kirkcudbright]

For 6 eggs you need 12 oz of dry ingredients + baking powder

[thelewisgang]

this is odd that you posted this question as I have been baking cakes of various types for longer than I care to remember & when I last made Victoria sponge cake the same thing happened to me. I never found out why though. A friend suggested the flour might not have been as fresh as it should have been. I know the eggs were fine/fresh as I get them locally from a farm. You said you used 6 eggs with 6oz of flour?? I'm sure I only use 3 eggs. Will check when I go downstairs & report back. good luck second time!!

[LyndaB]

If you have used 6 eggs, you need roughly 12 oz flour and 12 oz sugar - not 6

[ladyalex]

I agree with the other posters that your ratio of flour to eggs seems wrong.

I always remember the recipe as 4 and 4 and 4 and 2.
4oz SR flour + 4oz marg + 4oz caster sugar + 2 eggs

(Cannot be doing with grammes)

[Prudie]

I'm no cook but 6oz flour between 3 sandwich tins is 2oz each, that would never make for more than a pancake height!

[lilacben]

Yes as said by others your measurements where wrong... I always weigh my eggs, without the shells to make them the same amount of the sugar and butter/marg...but also put two ounces more of flour in it...so it would have been 12 oz butter.12oz sugar..6 eggs or weighed until 12 oz and 14 oz flour... Hope this helps xx

[chokkie]

Oh my god, yes of course I used the wrong quantities! What a silly wotsit I am - have been making cakes most of my life, can't imagine how I got it wrong. Oh well, will do them again, properly, next weekend. At least I read the recipe for the other (lemon drizzle) cake I made!

Thanks so much everyone .... I doubt I'll be making that mistake in a hurry! Cheers, Chox.

[NoMercy]

I actually weigh the eggs and then match their weight with the dry ingredients.

[DTCwordfan]

Ducks eggs in them, drizzled extra, extra slow....for moisture, yum.