duch*ess of Cornwall shares her Victoria Sponge recipe (2024)

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Did the Queen like Victoria Sponge? ›

Food historian Alysa Levene reported in her 2016 bookCake: A Slice of Historythat the Queen was in fact particularly fond of this simple yet delicious sponge cake and enjoyed having a slice with her afternoon tea.

The Victoria Sponge was named after Queen Victoria, who regularly ate a slice of sponge cake with her tea, each afternoon! To mark Royal Garden Parties, Buckingham Palace Pastry Chef's are delighted to share this traditional recipe.

Victoria sponge

The recipe evolved from the classic pound cake made with equal proportions of flour, fat, sugar and eggs. The invention of baking powder in 1843 by English food manufacturer Alfred Bird in Birmingham allowed the cake to rise higher than was previously possible.

Tests on the remains of the Romanov imperial family show that the specific form of haemophilia passed down by Queen Victoria was probably the relatively rare haemophilia B. The presence of haemophilia B within the European royal families was well-known, with the condition once popularly known as "the royal disease".

The couple enjoyed several years together, and became a golden couple to the outside world, symbolic of power, wealth, family values and love. Despite it being a true love match, the couple experienced ups and downs like everyone else, but managed to preserve their passionate love for each other and the royal family.

Basically, a sponge is a cake made very light by whipping the egg and carefully folding in the flour mixture. The two types of sponge cake that appear most often on the show are Victoria and Genoise.

The primary difference is that angel cake relies solely on egg whites and contains no fats, while sponge cake uses both egg yolks and whites and can often include fats like butter.

Unlike other types of cake, such as butter or oil cakes, sponge cakes do not contain much fat which contributes to it's light texture. Sponge cake is often used as a base for other desserts, such as layered cakes, trifle, or as a component in various French-style pastries.

Posted on www.today.com (Read original article here.) “This chocolate biscuit cake is Her Royal Majesty the Queen's favorite afternoon tea cake by far,” chef Darren McGrady, The Royal Chef and former personal chef to Queen Elizabeth II, told TODAY Food.

There are however some features which may distinguish them. The first is that there is usually more milk and fewer eggs in a vanilla cake than there is in a Victoria sponge. On the whole this makes them a bit denser in texture but also a bit more moist.

What is a cake without cream called? ›

Oil Cake. Oil cakes follow the same principles as butter cakes, but use oil as the source of fat. Because oil is liquid at room temperature, oil cake recipes skip the step of creaming the fat and sugar; usually the oil is incorporated into the wet ingredients, which are whisked or folded into the dry ingredients.

You say cookie, we say biscuit; you say plastic wrap, we say cling film; you say sponge and mean the thing you clean with, and we mean a lovely cake.

Finally, the cake batter needs to go into the oven as soon as it has been mixed, so make sure that the oven is preheating before you start to make the cake. If the batter has to sit for any length of time or goes into an oven that is too cold then it will not rise properly and could be more dense.

Queen Elizabeth cake is a lightly sweet, moist, and low-fat date cake, topped with a brown sugar, butter and broiled coconut mixture. "Queen Elizabeth cake" is named after the Queen of Canada, Elizabeth II, and may have first been made in 1953 for her coronation.

Queen Elizabeth's Favorite Cake: Chocolate Biscuit Cake.

Victoria and Albert's engagement

The cousins were introduced by their uncle, Leopold I (1790 - 1865), King of the Belgians. In their memoirs, both Albert and Victoria record that they almost instantly fell in love.

Queen Victoria enjoyed eating and because she was Queen, and had plenty of money, she could eat whatever she wanted. This was quite the opposite to most of the Victorian population, who had very little money. Queen Victoria had many banquets while she was entertaining guests at Buckingham Palace.

Queen Victoria and Princess Beatrice

The resemblance between the two women is often remarked upon by royal watchers. Interestingly, the eldest daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah, duch*ess of York was named after the youngest of Queen Victoria's daughters, Princess Beatrice.