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Victoria Sponge Cake

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It's the twentieth which means it's time for my Cake Slice Bakers' post.  This month I baked a Victoria Sponge Cake two ways.  It seemed a no-brainer that this would be my pick for the month given that my daughter and I have been feasting our eyes of Victoria, and my Anglophile son thinks I should become an expert on anything that makes an appearance on the Great British Baking Show. This is basically two vanilla layers with whipped cream and jam in between.  The recipe calls for strawberry jam, but I opted to use one of my last jars of homemade blueberry jam for a little taste of summer in February. I had no problems baking the cake, and the family loved it.  I do need to work a little bit on my powdered sugar dusting technique.  It was a little squisy when I cut a slice, but that could be because I put a little more filling in than was called for. World Class Cakes has an alternate form the author calls a Fairy Cake.  To me they looked like butterflies,