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BRITISH BATTENBURG CAKE

Jun-11-2016
Shaheen Ali
20 minutes
Prep Time
60 minutes
Cook Time
5 People
Serves
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ABOUT BRITISH BATTENBURG CAKE RECIPE

Battenburg cake is said to have been invented in 1884, in honour of the marriage of Queen Victoria's grand daughter, Victoria of Hesse-Darmsadt, to the Greman prince Louis of Battenburg. Like Coronation Chicken, created for our Queen's coronation nearly 70 years later, it was so popular that it never went away.

Recipe Tags

  • Non-veg
  • Hard
  • Dinner Party
  • British
  • Baking
  • Dessert

Ingredients Serving: 5

  1. 2 cups All purpose flour
  2. 1 tsp Baking powder
  3. 1/2 tsp baking soda
  4. 1 pinch salt
  5. 1 cup sugar
  6. 4 Eggs
  7. 1 cup Softened butter - / 100 gms
  8. 1 tsp Vanilla extract
  9. 1 tsp Strawberry extract / essence
  10. few drops of lemon yellow color
  11. few drops of strawberry pink color
  12. For decor :
  13. 1 cup whipping cream
  14. 4-5 tbsps Confectioners sugar
  15. 1 fist size lobe of Marzipan or Fondant
  16. Few silver balls

Instructions

  1. Sift flour, baking soda, baking powder and salt. Whisk sugar and butter. Add eggs one at a time. Add the dry mix into the wet mix
  2. Divide the batter into two portions. Add vanilla extract and lemon colour
  3. Similarly add strawberry extract and strawberry pink colour into the other divided portion and mix well.
  4. Line two same size baking trays with parchment paper and pour into the two batters in the consecutive trays .
  5. Bake both the cakes in a pre heated oven at 180 degree C for 30-35mins
  6. Once the cake is cool completely, slice off the top and the four sides to make an equal sized rectangular of almost 10'x 3' inches.
  7. Now you will be having two equal sized rectangular cakes. Take the pink cake and cut it length wise from the center. Similarly slice the yellow cake as well.
  8. Take a pink slice and a yellow slice and pink slice and attach them together length wise by applying whipping cream in the center. [take whipping cream and add confectioners sugar into it and whisk till soft peaks appear] Now apply whipping cream all over the assembled cake and keep aside. Refrigerate for sometime before serving
  9. Knead marzipan and roll out outwards with a rolling ping. Roll it big so that it covers the entire cake.

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Sarmistha Purkayastha
Nov-29-2016
Sarmistha Purkayastha   Nov-29-2016

Shilpa Khatwanirajdev
Aug-15-2016
Shilpa Khatwanirajdev   Aug-15-2016

Same question how to fondant and substitutes for egg

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