Battenberg Cake

This striking checkerboard barroom is simply a favourite for day beverage successful England. Legend has it that the barroom was created successful grant of the matrimony of Queen Victoria’s granddaughter Victoria to Prince Louis of Battenberg successful the 1880s. (The colored squares wrong are thought to correspond the 4 princes of Battenberg.)

Assembling the barroom requires immoderate precision, but it's easier than it looks. The batter is heavy capable that you tin reasonably neatly spoon the yellowish and pinkish colors adjacent to each different without them bleeding together; you mightiness person to trim a spot disconnected each fractional to chopped distant immoderate combined bits. Or you tin make a divider to support them separate. We've wrapped a bladed portion of cardboard, specified arsenic from a insubstantial box, successful aluminum foil to bully effect.

The archetypal look calls for a 7-inch quadrate baking pan; successful testing, we recovered that an 8-inch disposable aluminum cookware works conscionable fine. (You'll person somewhat much trimmings.)

The assembled cake, minus the last exertion of apricot jam and the marzipan exterior, tin beryllium tightly wrapped successful integrative wrapper and stored astatine country somesthesia 1 time successful beforehand oregon frozen for up to 1 month. The assembled barroom and beryllium stored successful an airtight instrumentality astatine country somesthesia for 3 to 4 days.

Ingredients

Nutritional Facts

Per serving (after trimming, based connected 10)

• Calories

  270

• Fat

  12 g

• Saturated Fat

  5 g

• Carbohydrates

  40 g

• Sodium

  20 mg

• Cholesterol

  50 mg

• Protein

  4 g

• Sugar

  26 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Mary Berry's Baking Bible: Over 250 Classic Recipes," by Mary Berry (BBC Books, 2009).

Tested by Becky Krystal and Kara Elder.