How to Make Homemade Battenberg cake

Hey everyone, welcome to our recipe page, If you're looking for new recipes to try this weekend, look no further! We provide you only the best Battenberg cake recipe here. We also have wide variety of recipes to try.

Before you jump to Battenberg cake recipe, you may want to read this short interesting healthy tips about Use Food to Improve Your Mood.

For the most part, people have been trained to believe that "comfort" foods are bad for the body and should be avoided. But if your comfort food is candy or junk food this might be true. Other times, however, comfort foods can be completely nutritious and it's good for you to eat them. There are some foods that, when you eat them, may boost your mood. If you feel a little bit down and need a happiness pick me up, try a few of these.

Make a trail mix from seeds and/or nuts. Your mood can be improved by eating peanuts, almonds, cashews, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, and so on. This is possible since these foods are rich in magnesium which increases your production of serotonin. Serotonin is the "feel good" natural substance that directs your brain how you feel day in and day out. The higher your serotonin levels, the better you will feel. Nuts, in addition to raising your mood, can be a superb protein source.

Now you realize that junk food isn't necessarily what you have to eat when you are wanting to help your moods get better. Try some of these instead!

We hope you got benefit from reading it, now let's go back to battenberg cake recipe. To cook battenberg cake you need 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you do it.

The ingredients needed to cook Battenberg cake:

1. Provide 175 g of very soft butter.
2. Prepare 175 g of golden caster sugar.
3. Use 140 g of self-raising flour.
4. Take 50 g of ground almonds.
5. Provide 1/2 tsp of baking powder.
6. Get 3 of medium eggs.
7. Get 1/2 tsp of vanilla extract.
8. Take 1/4 tsp of almond extract.
9. Get of Pink food colouring.
10. Use 4 Tbsp of fresh milk.
11. Provide of Jam as required.
12. Get 1 of Marzipan block.

Instructions to make Battenberg cake:

1. Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4 and line the base and sides of a 20cm square tin with baking parchment (the easiest way is to cross 2 x 20cm-long strips over the base see in pics)To make the sponge, put the butter, sugar, flour, ground almonds, baking powder, eggs, vanilla and almond extract and 4tbsp milk in a large bowl. Beat with an electric whisk until the mix comes together smoothly..
2. Divide better equal into 2 bowls and add pink food colour in one bowl and mix well. Then pour both better in cake tin separately and bake for 25-30 mins – when you poke in a skewer, it should come out clean. Cool in the tin for 10 mins, then transfer to a wire rack to finish cooling.
3. 🌻To assemble: heat the jam in a small pan until runny, trim two opposite edges from the almond sponge, (see in pics) then well trim a third edge. Roughly measure the height of the sponge, then cutting from the well-trimmed edge, use a ruler to help you cut 4 slices each the same width as the sponge height. Discard or nibble leftover sponge. Repeat with pink cake..
4. Take 2 x almond slices and 2 x pink slices and trim so they are all the same length. Roll out one marzipan block on a surface lightly dusted with icing sugar to just over 20cm wide, then keep rolling lengthways until the marzipan is roughly 0.5cm thick..
5. Brush with jam, then lay a pink and an almond slice side by side at one end of the marzipan, (see in pics) brushing jam in between to stick sponges, and leaving 4cm clear marzipan at the end. Brush more jam on top of the sponges, then sandwich remaining 2 slices on top, alternating colours to give a checkerboard effect. Trim the marzipan to the length of the cakes..
6. Carefully lift up the marzipan and smooth over the cake with your hands, but leave a small marzipan fold along the bottom edge before you stick it to the first side. Trim opposite side to match size of fold, then crimp edges using fingers and thumb (or, more simply, press with prongs of fork). If you like, mark the 10 slices using the prongs of a fork..
7. Assemble second Battenberg and keep in an airtight box or well wrapped in cling film for up to 3 days. Can be frozen for up to a month. Enjoy !!! ❤️.

If you find this Battenberg cake recipe useful please share it to your good friends or family, thank you and good luck.