Battenberg cake
Battenberg cakeis a lightsponge cake.It is long, square faced cake, covered inmarzipan.
When cut in open one can see four more squares alternately coloured pink and yellow. These coloured sections are made by dyeing half of the cake mixture pink, and half yellow, then cutting each resultant sponge into two long, uniform cuboids, and joining them together with apricotjam,to form one cake. Established variations are for coconut flavouring to the sponge cake and lemon curd or raspberry jam in place of apricot jam.[1]
The cake was probably named in honour of the marriage, in 1884, ofPrincess Victoria of Hesse and by RhineQueen Victoria'sgranddaughtertoPrince Louis of Battenberg,with the four squares representing the four Battenberg princes:Louis,Alexander,HenryandFrancis Joseph.[2]
References
[change|change source]- ↑Rimmer, Simon."Battenburg Cake recipe".BBC.Archived fromthe originalon 2009-04-01.Retrieved2010-05-16.
- ↑"What is Battenberg Cake?".Wise Geek.Retrieved2008-04-30.
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