A chocolatey take on a classic Victoria sponge sandwich. Two layers of deliciously moist chocolate sponge sandwiched together with a layer of zingy lime curd buttercream. This chocolate Victoria sandwich is perfect for any teatime occasion, but also for alfresco dining.
Well it doesn’t look as though Blogger is going to bring back my lost post, so nearly one week on, I’ve decided to just clench my teeth and rewrite it. Once again, I apologise for all the comments that were lost on this one and several of my other posts when Blogger went down.
Remember those wonderful sunny days littered with bank holidays that seem like a distant dream now? On one of those we staged our alternative to the Royal Wedding. Forget the thronging crowds of Pall Mall, we opted for a moorland walk followed by tea and cake.
Chocolate Victoria Sandwich with Lime Curd Buttercream
A Victoria sandwich cake seemed appropriate for tea in the garden. But one with a twist: a chocolate Victoria sandwich hosting a generous layer of lime curd buttercream. I started off with Nigella’s recipe for Victoria sponge as a base point. I substituted cocoa powder for the cornflour and swapped the milk for yoghurt.
Luckily for me, I managed to acquire a goose egg, so this went into the mix too. Inspiration for the buttercream came from Little Bear Cakery with her lemon curd version. I went my own way and reduced the sugar. And of course, I used my lime and ginger curd.
Once again we enjoyed tea, scones and cake in a lovely Cornish moorland garden. Having worked up an appetite, the cake vanished rapidly amid appreciative comments.
The cake cut well. It was moist and very tasty but the star of the show was the buttercream. It was so delicious, it tasted just like lemon sherbets. Why don’t they have lime sherbets I wonder?
Chocolate Victoria Sandwich Top Tip
Swap the lime and ginger curd for your favourite curd. Raspberry curd is a particularly good one here.
Chocolate Victoria Sandwich with Apricot Curd Buttercream
As the chocolate Victoria sandwich cake was so popular, I made it again a short while later. It was my birthday and in the age old tradition, it was time to make cakes for work. This time I was keen to use more of the apricot curd I’d recently made.
I made pretty much an exact copy of this lime curd buttercream cake, but I used apricot curd instead. It went down a storm at work, with many commenting on how much they enjoyed the apricot curd filling. CT felt rather left out, but I did inform him that he does pretty well most of the time and his birthday is fast approaching.
Other Lime Cakes You Might Like
- Chocolate lime cake
- Courgette cake with lime mascarpone frosting
- Double delight bundt cake
- Ginger & lime cake
- Lime & coconut cake with white chocolate
- White chocolate & lime genoise
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Choclette x
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Chocolate Victoria Sandwich – The Recipe
Chocolate Victoria Sandwich
Ingredients
Chocolate Sponge
- 225 g unsalted butter – softened
- 225 g golden caster sugar (I used my own cardamom sugar)
- 3 large eggs (I used a goose egg)
- 200 g flour (50g wholemeal spelt & 150g white)
- 25 g cocoa powder
- 1 ½ tsp baking powder
- 1 pinch bicarbonate of soda (baking soda)
- 2 tbsp Greek yoghurt
Lime Curd Buttercream
- 40 g unsalted butter – softened
- 80 g icing sugar
- 4 tbsp lime curd
Instructions
Chocolate Sponge
- Turn the oven on to 180℃ (160℃ fan, 350℉, Gas 4).
- Cream the butter with the sugar until pale in colour and fluffy in texture.
- Beat in the eggs, one by one.
- Sift in the flours, cocoa, baking powder and bicarbonate of soda and mix until it just comes together.
- Stir in the yoghurt until everything is just incorporated.
- Spoon into two 22cm silicone sandwich moulds or lined tins and level the tops. Bake for 25 minutes in the middle of the oven until well risen and firm to the touch.
- Leave to cool for 10 minutes then turn out onto wire racks to cool completely.
Lime Curd Buttercream
- Cream the butter with the sugar until very light and fluffy.
- Beat in the lime curd.
- Spread over one of the cooled cakes and place the other on top.
- Sprinkle with a little caster sugar or sifted icing sugar if desired.
I used to love those chocolate and lime boiled sweets when I was young so this cake really appeals to me, what a wonderful idea to make them into a Victoria Sponge style cake. Defo (another) one for the to-to-list.
Weirdly, I hated those chocolate lime sweets, but I reckon I’d probably quite like them now. I certainly like this cake.
I used to make a version of this all the time when I was little but lime curd sounds like a great upgrade!
Pretty much any fruit curd works well with chocolate and I’m super impressed you made something as advanced as a Victoria sandwich when you were little.
It looks delicious and I think you are right, the raspberry curd would go amazingly well with this chocolate sponge.
Now all we need is for raspberries to come into season. I’m hoping we’ll have more luck with the ones on our allotment this year.
I love a chocolate Victoria sponge and the addition of lime curd buttercream filling is a great idea – I love citrus.
Hahaha, I know you’re a fellow citrus fan Lesley. It’s such a wonderful fruit family. Lime curd buttercream is so delicious.
Oh wow what a choice of flavours! I can’t believe how much I need to try this.
Fruit curd buttercream is so good Sisley and it goes particularly well in a chocolate sponge.
BEAUTIFUL photos and BEAUTIFIL cake Choclette, and do so LOVE citrus with chocolate, it’s a match made in heaven. Thanks for hosting this week on #CookBlogShare 🙂 Karen
Thank you Karen. Citrus is just wonderful, with or even without chocolate.
It sounds delicious especially with that lime curd butttecream. Anything citrus flavoured is always popular in our house and chocolate is definitely a favourite too!
That lime curd is wonderful stuff as is the buttercream and I’ve found that it’s a bit of a winner with chocolate cake.
Thanks for that.
Really like the lime/chocolate combination. Yum!
OK, just seen it’s 3/4 hens eggs.
Rather depends on size of egg. I’d say 4 medium eggs or 3 large ones.
Is a goose egg bigger than a chicken egg? Would I have to use two chicken eggs? Looks great!
CC – this one is on my must make again list.
Chocolate victoria sandwich…now those are three words that definitely belong together! Sounds amazing
Little Loaf – thank you for your words of encouragement. Glad it was worth posting again 🙂
Katie – thank you. As chocolate is all that I’m blogging about, I have to try and be a little creative or I wouldn’t get any visitors at all.
Xinmei – Without making the same cake twice using different eggs, it’s hard to know if the goose egg made any different. But I felt it did 😉
Janice – thank you
Johanna – thank you for alerting me to the reappearance of our comments. I got my original post back in draft format too, but think it’s too late to do much about it now.
C – thank you. I am rather taken with lime and chocolate. I think this might be my best discovery after chilli and chocolate.
Ananda – indeed, couldn’t agree more!
Janna – good to find another lover of butter.
you say buttercream and i am soo in!!
hate blogger when it behaves nasty and wat yum sandwich and 2nd pic is a killer yum!
Such a pain to have lost your post, but really glad you reposted as I wanted to say how delicious this looked – really moist and chocolately. I love the idea of lime curd with it too. And chocolate and lime is clearly a good combo – as your post on Sea Dog shows!
oh is this the post where you had a photo of the goose eggs – I remember seeing that and being impressed
I think I read this first time around but not sure if I got around to commenting – but I found that some of my lost comments dropped back in today which surprised me
This looks absolutely delicious. The lime curd is a brilliant twist and paired with chocolate I’m sure would be divine. I need to find an occasion to give this a go. My usual dilemma though…too many yummy cakes – too little time!! X
Nice combo!
Aww, blogger deleted a few of my comments too, it was really annoying! But happy to hear you persisted with the post, and so interesting too! Do you fell the goose egg made much difference?
p.s. kudos for the lemon curd choice 🙂
I lost comments too, but thankfully no posts. Chocolate and lime is a combination I have only tried once before – in a truffle. It was delicious though so I really must try it together more often. I am always in awe of how inventive you are with chocolate.
I love the combination of chocolate and lime – reminds me of those humbug-like chocolate lime sweets from when I was little… This looks utterly delicious and definitely worth posting twice!
Rhizowen – I think you get quite enough cake as it is 😉
Maria – yes, very annoying. I had an on-going saga.
Kate – well done for finding goose eggs, they are not easily come by. I look forward to seeing how you get on with them.
Anna – thank you, you and me both 😉
Dom – I know. Thank you for your earlier comment – I even replied to it – bah!
Baking Addict – it’s one of the best buttercreams I’ve come across yet.
I like the sound of lime curd buttercream. Can’t go wrong with a Victoria sandwich especially a chocolate one 🙂
I saw this one!!… still looking divine xxx… not quite vivid green enough for me x
Sounds and looks heavenly. I’m actually salivating lol
The same happened to me, I had to rewrite everything and lost all my comments.
Love the sound and look of this version of the classic cake!
Maria
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You need less friends so I can have more cake.
This morning I went to a City Farm, where they were selling goose and duck eggs- I bought a couple of each (as well as some hen eggs- which I promptly dropped on the tube home, gagh!), so really useful to know the coversion between hen and duck eggs, thank you! I love the sound of lemon sherbet buttercream!