
This past summer, we had some work done on our garden. We bought our house in March 2009, and did some major renovations to it - we basically gutted the whole house, and built it back up from the bare bones. The outcome is a lovely little home that is perfectly us. One thing that we've never really focused on, or put much effort into though was the garden. Which is weird really, when you think about it. I love gardening, it's one of my many hobbies and the main reason we chose to buy this house was because it had such a wonderful garden. 2015 is going to be the year that it is finished, I hope! I have so many plans for vegetables and roses and sweet peas and barbeques and eventually a pizza oven. But, I digress!
So one day this summer, we had one of our friends come over to help us do some of the back breaking, manual labour type stuff. He was such a star; he worked so hard that I felt guilty. We paid him of course, but I wanted to give a bit of extra thanks for the work that he'd done, and my mind turned to baking.

He'd gotten engaged and thrown an engagement party a few months before and I'd baked some cupcakes for their party which had gone down well, so I decided to bake a box for him to take home, so he could put his feet up that night with a cuppa and a bun and recover! These buns are made with a basic victoria sponge, and piped with slightly sweetened whipped vanilla cream. With a Victoria Sponge cake, you first weigh your eggs, and then weigh out your sugar, butter and flour in equal portions to match. I used two medium eggs, which gave me enough mixture to make 9 buns, or alternatively would make a small 6 inch cake. Traditionally, a full cake is made with 3 eggs, but the method is the same. I've shared how to make a traditional victoria sponge cake below, if you'd like the recipe!

Victoria Sponge Cake Buns
Ingredients:
Eggs
Butter
Self raising flour
Sugar
For the cream:
300ml whipping cream
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 tsp icing sugar
Method:
For the buns:
For a cake:

Emma, I tried these and they were super yummy. Everyone liked it and I am getting mini orders for the coming week. My child wants them for school as well. just that I am practicing to present them as neatly as you have.
ReplyDeleteCupcakes! It's my favorite. Though cream frosting is bit heavy and have lots of calories but i like it.
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