Sophie Hamilton
Former royal chef Darren McGrady cooked for the Queen and right here he exhibits the way to bake a Victoria Sponge cake in an air fryer
Air fryers are gaining in recognition on account of their easy and speedy approach of cooking – and now the Queen‘s former chef has revealed you’ll be able to even prepare dinner a cake within the revolutionary equipment.
In a brand new video on his YouTube channel, Darren McGrady exhibits the way to prepare dinner a standard Victoria Sponge utilizing the air fryer methodology and likewise gave slightly royal historical past on the favored cake.
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Darren says: “Air fryers have gotten actually standard proper now and sponges prepare dinner amazingly within the air fryer.”
He then provides viewers a tutorial on baking a Victoria Sponge, placing his cake combination in a traditional cake tin then putting it within the air fryer drawer.
Darren makes use of a KYVOL AF600 air fryer and bakes the cake at 400 levels F for half-hour, then repeats this with the opposite layer of sponge cake. The cake appears excellent when he removes it from the air fryer!
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The sponge cake after being cooked in an air fryer
On the royal historical past of the Victoria Sponge cake, Darren explains: “Victoria Sponge is a British traditional. It dates again to Queen Victoria and even additional if we refer it to its authentic identify, Victoria Sandwich.
“Victoria Sandwich appeared in Mrs Beeton’s E book of Family Administration in 1861 however that was nothing just like the Victoria Sponge we see round all of the tearooms on the earth right now. It by no means had baking powder in it.
“The unique recipe was created earlier than baking powder. It was overwhelmed and whipped and whipped and whipped in order that it really received slightly air in it. And reasonably than being served spherical the place you may slice it into wedges, it was really minimize into fingers.”
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The Victoria Sponge cake is a British traditional
Then got here the invention of baking powder and the cake was renamed the Victoria Sponge.
Darren tells followers: “Queen Victoria, after Prince Albert died, moved to Osbourne Home within the Isle of Wight. They might nonetheless make the Victoria Sponge desserts at Buckingham Palace after which it could go down by practice with Queen Victoria, then throughout to the Isle of Wight for her afternoon tea.”
How fascinating! We surprise what Victoria would make of the air fryer…
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