Easiest Way to Prepare 🍰Battenberg Cake🍰 in A Minutes for Young Wife

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Battenberg or Battenburg is a light sponge cake held together with jam. The cake is covered in marzipan and, when cut in cross section. Sarah Cook's traditional Battenberg cake is a delicious project for an afternoon in the kitchen, from BBC Good Food.

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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have 🍰battenberg cake🍰 using 8 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make 🍰Battenberg Cake🍰:

1. Take 450 g marzipan
2. Prepare 175 g butter
3. Take 175 g caster sugar
4. Take 175 g self-raising flour (or plain flour + 1 tsp baking powder)
5. Make ready 3 eggs
6. Prepare 2-3 tsp apricot glaze (or sieved apricot jam)
7. Make ready 1 tsp vanilla essence
8. Prepare Red or pink food colouring Icing sugar

We needed it for our annual Battenberg cake for Shakespeare's birthday next month. In one of the Thursday Next books Hamlet has an obsession with the cake (Go read the Thurday Next books now! LOL), but none of us knew what Battenberg cake was! Assembling the cake requires some precision, but it's easier than it looks.

Instructions to make 🍰Battenberg Cake🍰:

1. Cream together the butter and sugar. - Whisk the eggs in a small bowl together with the vanilla essence. Add half the eggs to the butter and sugar and beat in.
2. Sieve in half the flour and beat well. Now beat in, consecutively, the remaining egg and flour. - - Lightly grease and line an 8″ (20 cm) square cake tin with baking paper. Make a divider from baking foil and place down the centre of the tin. - Pour one half of the mixture into one half of the cake tin.
3. Beat in enough food colouring into the remaining mixture to give a strong pink colour, then pour it into the other half of the cake tin. - Bake at 170°C for 25-30 minutes and allow to cool before turning the cake out of the tin.
4. Carefully trim the two sponge cakes to given neat rectangles of cake. Cut each sponge down the centre to give a total of four long oblongs. Using warm apricot glaze, stick the oblongs together into a checkerboard pattern. Trim further if necessary.
5. Sprinkle icing sugar onto a flat surface and roll out the marzipan to around 5 mm (¼”) thick. Spread apricot glaze onto the marzipan and slide the cake into the middle of the marzipan. Fold up the sides and make a neat seam on the top of the cake.
6. Turn the cake over so that the seam is on the bottom and trim the ends of the cake. Place on a serving plate/board and dust with icing sugar.
7. #Tips - - You can make apricot glaze by melting apricot jam in a pan and passing it through a sieve. In fact any jam will do as long as it doesn’t have bits in it – what the Americans call “Jelly”. - - I find that gel or paste food colourings keep their colour much better during baking than liquid food colourings. You can usually buy them online and because you need so little for a strong colour they last for ages.
8. If your cake sticks to the flat surface, carefully run a palette knife under the length of the cake. - - Don’t throw the off-cuts of cake or marzipan away – eat the cake and keep the marzipan for another recipe!

The batter is thick enough that you can fairly neatly spoon the yellow and pink colors next to each other without them bleeding together; you might have to trim a bit off each half to. Battenberg Cake is an impressive cake originating in England, consisting of two different color sponge cakes assembled in a chequered pattern, bonded together with apricot jam and covered with homemade marzipan. The classic Battenberg Cake is made with yellow and pink sponge cakes. Battenberg cake is a popular British cake that is often purchased instead of made. This peculiarly British teatime confection is much nicer made at home, although you'll need to have patience to avoid some of my shonky cake assembly.

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