Battenberg Cake

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Effectively, Battenberg cake is very popular in the United Kingdom, a very retro nostalgic, checkerboard-style cake. Start by beating your butter and sugar together, get that beating on quite a high speed for about 5 minutes until really pale and fluffy. Once ready, add in two large free-range eggs one at a time and beat in between after about a minute. Sift in plain flour and put your mixer back on low speed then depending on the flavours you want in the cake, you will split the batter into two. Try to be as even as possible, you can use a scale.

For the first bowl, you are going to make it into a rose, start by adding two teaspoons of whole milk with a little tiny bit of pink food colour paste. Add in some rose extract, if you can’t find rose extract, rose water will still do. Fold that gently so you don’t knock off all the air. Once that is done, you can turn your attention to the second bowl.

You are also going to add in two teaspoons of milk and you will be adding some pistachio paste, a tablespoon of it into the batter and then fold that as well. Once the batter is ready, use a small cake tin divide it up with tin foil and spray it with some oil otherwise it will stick. Distribute your batter to the tin as evenly as possible and once done, bake it at 170 degrees Celcius for 12c to 14 minutes and it should be nice and springy on the top when ready. Once baked, let them cool and then trim them into nice little squares and all the same size.

For the coasting, you are going to use vanilla buttercream. The first step of making the Battenberg cake is to fill it and give it a crumb coat. Start with one of the lengths, and then using a palette knife, put a small amount of icing just down the middle then slide up the other cake next to it. Give the top of the two layers a nice layer of icing coating and then do the same thing with the colors the other way around.

With all your pieces in place, give it a little crumb coat which is going to lock all the crumbs in place before the final coating. Let it chill in the fridge for 20 minutes before giving it a nice smooth coating.

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