Name: Battenberg Cake
Yield: Serves 8–10
Cuisine: British
Ingredients: 3 eggs, at room temperature; 1 cup (200 g) granulated sugar; ¼ cup (60 ml) milk; ½ teaspoon pure almond extract; confectioners’ sugar, for dusting; ¾ teaspoon pure vanilla extract; 1 tube (7 oz/198 g) marzipan (preferably white); ½ teaspoon salt; ⅓ cup (40 g) almond flour; 1 teaspoon baking powder; 1–3 drops red or pink food coloring; ⅓ cup (105 g) apricot jam; 1⅓ cups (170 g) all-purpose flour, plus more for the pan and foil; ¾ cup (170 g) unsalted butter, at room temperature, plus more for the pan and foil

Preparation info

Serves
8–10

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Official Downton Abbey Afternoon Tea Cookbook

By Downton Abbey

Published 2020

About

Also known as a domino cake or church window cake, this almond-flavored checkerboard-style confection was named in honor of the 1884 marriage of Queen Victoria’s granddaughter Victoria to Prince Louis of Battenberg. Because of anti-German sentiment in Britain during World War I, the Prince gave up his German name and dynastic titles in 1917 and took an English name, Mountbatten (the surname of the current Prince Philip of E