How to make a victoria sponge cake

Grease your tins, didn't measure mine but they are standard size, 8inch I think

Place the butter/margarine in a bowl , I used part white caster sugar and part golden caster sugar purely because I had ran out of plain white.

I used a hand whisk to cream them together until paler and creamy, scraping down the sides regularly

Adding the vanilla extract

3 eggs

Flour

Adding the flour incrementally, and alternately with the eggs

Adding the eggs, that I gently beat first

This is what it looks like when all the ingredients have been mixed together

Place into preheated oven at 180c for 20 mins

This is one half after cooling on the rack.

The end result, with the jam filling and dusting of icing sugar. Simple and delicious. You can use anything you want for the filling, I choose homemade strawberry conserve.