Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, 🍰battenberg cake🍰. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Stir in flour, baking powder and salt gently. No cake is more British than a frivolous Battenberg cake. At any afternoon tea, in fact at any occasion bring out a Battenberg cake and watch smiles all round. There is something cheering about the distinctive pink and yellow squares tightly wrapped in a thick layer of marzipan that no other cake seems able to achieve.
🍰Battenberg Cake🍰 is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. 🍰Battenberg Cake🍰 is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to 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🍰:
- Make ready 450 g marzipan
- Get 175 g butter
- Get 175 g caster sugar
- Make ready 175 g self-raising flour (or plain flour + 1 tsp baking powder)
- Get 3 eggs
- Make ready 2-3 tsp apricot glaze (or sieved apricot jam)
- Take 1 tsp vanilla essence
- Prepare Red or pink food colouring Icing sugar
Thanks to the Great British Baking Show for inspiring me to buy this and other Silverwood tins. Battenberg or Battenburg is a light sponge cake held together with jam. The cake is covered in marzipan and, when cut in cross section, displays a distinctive two-by-two check pattern alternately coloured pink and yellow. The large chequered patterns on emergency vehicles in the UK are officially referred to as Battenburg markings because of their resemblance to the cake.
Steps to make 🍰Battenberg Cake🍰:
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- #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.
- 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 cake is covered in marzipan and, when cut in cross section, displays a distinctive two-by-two check pattern alternately coloured pink and yellow. The large chequered patterns on emergency vehicles in the UK are officially referred to as Battenburg markings because of their resemblance to the cake. For this cake, two colors of cakes are stacked in a checkerboard pattern, with apricot jam between them, and homemade marzipan wrapped around the whole thing. The Battenberg cake is as beautiful as it is tasty. Battenberg cake has also been called church window cake, checkerboard cake, and domino cake.
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