When you want to make healthy changes, you don’t always want to cut out the things you love. Here the British classic Victoria Sponge is given a healthy twist.
Serves: 8
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes
You’ll need:
200g self-raising flour
2 tsp baking powder
140g golden caster sugar
2 large eggs
175g Total Greek Yogurt
2-3 drops vanilla extract
25g unsalted butter, melted
1tbsp semi-skimmed milk
2 tbsp rapeseed oil
5 tbsp Streamline Strawberry Jam
Fresh strawberries to decorate
What to do:
Preheat your oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4.
Lightly oil 2 x 18cm sandwich cake tins with a little rapeseed oil and line the bottom with greaseproof paper. Tip the flour, baking powder and sugar into a mixing bowl and combine. In a separate bowl, beat the eggs, add the yogurt, vanilla, melted butter, milk and oil and stir until smooth. Tip this into the dry mixture and gently fold with a large metal spoon until well combined.
Divide the mixture between the tins and level the tops. Bake for 20 mins until the cakes have risen and spring back when you gently press the top.
Let the cakes cool for a few minutes in the tins, then turn them out, remove the greaseproof paper and leave to cool on a cooling rack until completely cold.
Upturn one of the cakes onto a serving plate and spread the strawberry jam over. Gently place the other cake on top and decorate with slices of fresh strawberries.
Each serving contains:
265 calories (13%)
22.7g sugar (25%)
8.7g fat (12%)
3.2g saturates (16%)
0.7g salt (12%)