Victoria Sponge Cake
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sugar
4 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
1 cup all-purpose flour, measured by spooning into cup
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp salt
Filling:
approx 1/2 cup jam or a little more (eg. strawberry, raspberry, blueberry or peach), homemade with fresh fruit if you like
1 cup heavy whipping cream, whipped (can omit)
Cream butter and sugar. [...]
I think this is one of the reasons I always gained weight over Christmas. It was sooo good, I just couldn’t stop. Slice after delicious slice.
Some years, Mom would bake these in large quantities and deliver them to neighbors and friends. Or she’d give plates full of all sorts of Christmas-y cookies and [...]
Southern Peach Pound Cake
1 cup butter, softened
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 tsp vanilla
3 cups flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
2 cups fresh peaches, chopped (2 to 3 large peaches, skins and pits removed)
Cream butter and sugar until fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time. Stir in vanilla. Toss 1/4 cup of the [...]
This is a good recipe to use up leftover whipped cream (not that that happens very often!) It was a favorite of mine growing up. Mom would make it with different fruits, sometimes marshmallows, (never nuts or coconut! because not everyone liked those), and it was always YUMMY and the bowl scraped clean. [...]
I tried making fudge for the first time before the holidays. The recipe I was following told me to let the fudge cool before beating, which couldn’t have been right, because by the time it was cool, it had already set and was literally quite impossible to stir. I also was unable to [...]