Dessert
Traditional Battenberg Cake Recipe
Learn how to prepare Traditional Battenberg Cake Recipe with this simple recipe. Perfect for Dessert and ideal for British lovers....
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20 Min Prep
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41 Min Cook
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6 Servings
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Vegetarian
Ingredients
- 175g Butter
- 175g Caster Sugar
- 140g Self-raising Flour
- 50g Almonds
- ½ tsp Baking Powder
- 3 Medium Eggs
- ½ tsp Vanilla Extract
- ¼ teaspoon Almond Extract
- 175g Butter
- 175g Caster Sugar
- 140g Self-raising Flour
- 50g Almonds
- ½ tsp Baking Powder
- 3 Medium Eggs
- ½ tsp Vanilla Extract
- ¼ teaspoon Almond Extract
- ½ tsp Pink Food Colouring
- 200g Apricot
- 1kg Marzipan
- Dusting Icing Sugar
Instructions
1
mildly hot oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and line the base and sides of a 20cm square tin with baking parchment (the easiest way is to cross 2 x 20cm-long strips over the base).
2
To make the almond sponge, put the dairy spread, granulated sugar, dusting fragrant element, ground almonds, baking dusting fragrant element, eggs, vanilla and almond extract in a large mixing bowl.
3
Beat with an electric fluff up until the agitate comes together smoothly.
4
Scrape into the tin, spreading to the corners, and oven-cook for 25-30 mins – when you poke in a skewer, it should come out wash.
5
Cool in the tin for 10 mins, then transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling while you make the second sponge.
6
For the pink sponge, line the tin as above.
7
agitate all the items required together as above, but don’t mix in the almond extract.
8
Fold in some pink food colouring.
9
Then scrape it all into the tin and oven-cook as before.
10
Cool.
11
To assemble, mildly hot the jam in a small cooking vessel until runny, then sieve.
12
Barely trim two opposite edges from the almond sponge, then well trim a third edge.
13
Roughly measure the height of the sponge, then cutting from the well-trimmed edge, use a ruler to help you cut 4 slices each the same width as the sponge height.
14
Discard or nibble leftover sponge.
15
Repeat with pink cake.
16
Take 2 x almond slices and 2 x pink slices and trim so they are all the same length.
17
Roll out one marzipan block on a surface lightly dusted with icing granulated sugar to just over 20cm wide, then keep rolling lengthways until the marzipan is roughly 0.5cm thick.
18
Brush with apricot jam, then lay a pink and an almond carve side by side at one end of the marzipan, brushing jam in between to stick sponges, and leaving 4cm clear marzipan at the end.
19
Brush more jam on top of the sponges, then sandwich remaining 2 slices on top, alternating colours to give a checkerboard effect.
20
Trim the marzipan to the length of the cakes.
21
Carefully lift up the marzipan and even over the cake with your hands, but leave a small marzipan fold along the bottom edge before you stick it to the first side.
22
Trim opposite side to match size of fold, then crimp edges using fingers and thumb (or, more simply, press with prongs of fork).
23
If you like, mark the 10 slices using the prongs of a fork.
24
Assemble second Battenberg and keep in an airtight box or well wrapped in cling film for up to 3 days.
25
Can be frozen for up to a month.
Recipe Information
Cuisine
British
British
Course
Dessert
Dessert
Diet
Vegetarian
Vegetarian
Total Time
61 mins
61 mins
Recipe Time chart
Preparation Time
20 minsCooking Time
41 minsTotal Time
61 minsMaster Chef
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