I have been baking this week. My brother has been in Japan for three weeks and so I thought it would be a good idea to make him a cake to welcome him home.
I love making a Victoria sponge cake and he loves eating them!
Preheat the oven 180c
225g caster sugar
225g self raising flour
225g butter
teaspoon vanilla extract
4 eggs
for icing-
350g icing sugr
175g butter
What I used
Ingredients
Weight the butter- 225g
Mix the butter until sooth by hand or with a mixer
weight the caster sugar- 225g
Add the sugar to the butter gradually and mix
whisk four eggs and a teaspoon of vanilla extract in a separate bowl
Add the whisked eggs slowly into the butter mixture
it will look a bit like this...very runny
Weigh out the flour- 225g
Sift it into the mixture
Mix it all together until smooth
grease two round tins
put the mixture in the two tins equally
Put them in the oven
Cook for twenty minutes
once they are golden brown its time to take them out
Take them out of the tins while they are still warm it is much easier too get them out!and leave them to cool - 30mins to an hour
make the butter icing 
put icing on one half and jam on the other and stick together 
Put butter icing on the top and decorateLaura x
