Mini battenburg - recipe
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Prepare
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Serves
4 -
Cook
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Skill
Easy
Ingredients
For the cake
- 150 g Butter (unsalted)
- 150 g Unrefined golden caster sugar
- 3 Egg(s) (free range)
- 150 g Self-raising white flour
- 30 ml Milk (whole)
- ½ tsp Pink food colouring
For the decoration
- 50 g Apricot jam
- 200 g Marzipan
- Unrefined golden icing sugar
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1
Preheat the oven to 200°C (fan 180°C, 400°F, gas mark 6).
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2
Beat together the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Add the eggs a little at a time, adding a little of the flour if the mixture looks a little curdled.
For this step you'll need:
- 150g Butter (unsalted)
- 150g Unrefined golden caster sugar
- 3 Egg(s) (free range)
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3
Fold in the flour. Add a little milk to the mixture, to make the mixture dropping consistency.
For this step you'll need:
- 150g Self-raising white flour
- 30ml Milk (whole)
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4
Pour half of the cake mixture into another bowl. Add a drop of pink food colouring to one of the bowls and stir well.
For this step you'll need:
- ½tsp Pink food colouring
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5
Grease and base line a 15cm square cake tin. Fold a 15cm square of foil into a thick strip and place down the middle of the tin so to divide the tin into two equal parts. Spoon the pink cake mix into one side and the plain mix into the other side.
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Bake in the oven for 25-30 minutes, or until springy to the touch. Leave to cool on a wire rack.
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Lightly dust a surface with icing sugar and roll the marzipan into a 23cm x 23cm rectangle.
For this step you'll need:
- Unrefined golden icing sugar
- 200g Marzipan
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Trim the cakes to the same size, and then cut both halves into quarters lengthways.
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9
In a pan, heat the apricot jam until it becomes runny.
For this step you'll need:
- 50g Apricot jam
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Place one of the pink pieces of cake onto a work surface and brush one side with jam. Lay a yellow piece next to it on the jam side and push together.
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Brush the top with more jam. Top the yellow piece of cake with a pink piece and vice versa. Brush the outside edges of the cake with more jam.
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12
Cut the rolled marzipan so that it’s just slightly longer than the cake. Wrap it around the cake, brushing the edges with a little jam to seal them together. Trim off the excess marzipan at the ends. Repeat until all the cake and marzipan is used.