Ultimate traditional Victoria sponge - Good Food Middle East

Ingredients

• 225g unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for the tins
• 225g golden caster sugar
• 4 large eggs, at room temperature
• 225g self-raising flour
• ½ tsp baking powder
• ½ tsp fine sea salt
• 2 tbsp milk
• icing sugar, for dusting
• 2 tbsp caster sugar
• ½ lemon, juiced
• 1 vanilla pod, split and seeds scraped (pod reserved, see below)
• ½ small bunch of mint, leaves picked and roughly bashed
• 200g strawberries, hulled and halved
• 125g raspberries
• 500g fresh custard
• 1 vanilla pod, pod only
• 50g caster sugar
• 2 tbsp custard powder
• 300ml double cream