Battenburg cake

Name: Battenburg cake
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 1 h 25 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: English
Ingredients: 180 g (5¾ oz) plain flour; 3 eggs, beaten; 2 drops almond essence; 175 g (5¾ oz) caster sugar; 125 g (4 oz) unsalted butter, at room temperature; 200 g (6½ oz) marzipan; icing sugar; 100 g (3¼ oz) apricot jam; pink food colouring; yellow food colouring; ½ teaspoon baking powder

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
1 hr 25

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Cakes

By Le Cordon Bleu

Published 1999

About

This cake would appear to have been created towards the end of the nineteenth century to honour the marriage of Queen Victoria’s granddaughter to Prince Louis of Battenberg.

Ingredients

125 g (4 oz) unsalted butter, at room temperature
175 g (5¾

Europe
United Kingdom
Wedding/Marriage
Vegetarian
Cake

Method

Preheat the oven to moderate 180°C (350°F/Gas 4). Line two loaf tins, each about 20 x 8 x 7 cm (8 x 3 x 2¾ inches) (see Chef’s techniques). Grease the paper and dust with flour.
Following the