Gluten-free Victoria sandwich cake love letters

Gluten-free Victoria sandwich love letter cakes (makes 12 letter cakes)

Ingredients

• 150g butter
• 150g caster sugar
• 1tsp vanilla extract
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon gluten-free baking powder
• 150g gluten-free self raising flour
• 3 tablespoons milk
• Icing sugar
• 4tbsp strawberry jam
• Whipping cream

What you will need

• Love Letters cake mould

Cooking instructions

1. Preheat oven to 165C/325F
2. Grease letter mould and place on baking tray
3. Beat butter and sugar until light and fluffy
4. Beat in eggs one at a time
5. Beat in vanilla essence
6. Fold in the sifted flour and baking powder
7. Slowly beat in milk
8. Spoon or pipe cake mixture into moulds
9. Bake for about 15 mins until skewer comes out clean
10. Leave to cool in moulds
11. Then turn out cakes onto a chopping board
12. Using a bread knife, cut cake letters in half width ways
13. Divide jam between the bottom half of the letter cakes and spread evenly across cakes
14. Whip the cream until stiff peaks form and fill piping bag fitted with a star nozzle
15. Pipe a layer of cream on top of jam covered cakes
16. Place top half of cakes on top of jam
17. Lightly dust with sieved icing sugar

Tip: I use Wiltons cake release to grease my moulds, but brush it on and use very sparingly

I also couldn't resist making some chunky chocolate letters using my new love letters mould from Bombay Duck, method same as chocolate lollipops.




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Have a sweet day!