Battenberg cake Battenberg Cake Recipe

No cake is more British than a frivolous Battenberg cake. In the afternoon tea, in fact any occasion, a Battenberg cake and make smiles clock around. There is something cheering in the streets of distinctive yellow and pink beautiful in a thick layer of marzipan cake packed somewhere else seems to be able to reach.

Battenberg cake, which were named in honor of the wedding of the granddaughter of Queen Victoria with Prince Louis of Battenberg in 1884 is assumed. Although there are many buy a cake Battenberg are actually not difficult to each other cakes as you can see in this Battenberg cake recipe.

Ingredients:

• 5 ¼ oz/150g softened unsalted butter and a little more for greasing
• 5 ¼ oz/150g fine sugar / powder
• 3 large eggs beaten,
• Vanilla extract 1 teaspoon
• 5 ¼ oz/150g rising flour
• 1fl oz/30 ml milk
• 2 drops of pink food coloring
• ¾ oz / 75 g apricot jam, heated for 2 with 2 drops of water
• 7oz/200g marzipan, rolled loans

Preparation:

• Preheat oven to 400 ° F / 200 ° C / Gas 6
• In a large bowl combine butter and sugar bake until smooth and creamy. Gradually add the beaten eggs, whisking constantly. Add the vanilla extract and mix.
• Sift beat the flour into the cooking bowl and continue until smooth. Half of the mixture into a bowl, add food coloring a little at a time until you stir a color that you have, and good.
• Grease a 6 "/ 15 cm and split into two parts by a thick layer of aluminum foil in the center of the square cake. Pour in pink on one side and plain on the other cake.
• Bake for 25-30 minutes or until cake, back down easy. Remove from the oven and let cool on a rack.
• Cut each cake of the same size, then cut along each cake. Take a pink pastel and brush one side with jam hot. Place a yellow piece next to it, the jam page and press together lightly.
• Brush the surface with jam and place a piece of yellow cake on a pink room, and vice versa. Brush the outside edges with jam.
• Brush wrapped with some jam and wrap the marzipan around the cake., Hide face down. Cut off the excess. Let stand in the refrigerator for at least an hour, then serve.