Victoria sponge

English

A Victoria sponge at a 2014 village fête baking competition

Etymology

After Queen Victoria, who preferred this cake with her afternoon tea.

Noun

Victoria sponge (plural Victoria sponges)

1. A type of sponge cake with a layer of jam sandwiched in the middle.
   • 2003, Guy Hunting, Adventures of a Gentleman’s Gentleman: The Queen, Noel Coward and I, London: John Blake Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 254:

     We were told that the auditorium could actually hold seven hundred, but that the caterers could only provide enough scones, Maid of Honour tarts and Victoria sponges for the smaller number.

   • 2015 February 26, Sophie Gilbert, “Soggy Bottoms and 'Sex Box': The Saucy State of TV's British Imports”, in The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     While the contestants grind away under the clock at their Victoria sponges and poached pear puddings in an idyllic Somerset setting, hosts Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins inquire winkingly about the erectness of a biscuit or the appropriate length for a profiterole.

Further reading

• Sponge cake § Victoria sponge on Wikipedia.Wikipedia