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Battenberg cake

Ingredients Method

340 g butter Take two small bread loaf pans. Line the baking pan with
parchment sheet and grease it.
340 g caster sugar
Now, start preparing cake batter, you need to cream together
6 eggs butter and sugar until light and fluffy.
340 g self-rising flour (sieved) Then add one egg at a time and add 1 tablespoon if flour after
adding each egg. Continue beating while adding eggs and flour.
4 tablespoons coco (powder)
When all the eggs are mix well and form a foamy batter, then
320 g apricot jam add remaining flour and mix it using spatula.
2 tablespoons lemon juice Pour half of the cake batter into one of the portion of prepared
500 g marzipan (white) pan and level it evenly from the top.
Now, in the remaining batter add coco powder and mix well
using a spoon.
Pour this coco batter into another portion of cake pan and level
it from top.

Place the pan in preheated oven at 190c until toothpick
inserted comes out clean from the center.
When the cake is ready, cool it to room temperature and then
carefully transfer it to the counter.

Discard the parchment lining from the center and then
carefully separated the two portions.
Now, carefully divide both portions into two pieces horizontally
and set aside.
Now heat apricot jam with lemon juice for just 2-4 minutes.
Until it melts completely then pass this melted jam from the
strainer.
Apply this melted jam using brush to inner side of each white
and brown cakes and join them. Similarly brush the jam on top
of them and place brown cake piece onto white and vise versa.
Press firmly to stick them together.
Roll the marzipan out to around 12 x9 inch size.
Carefully brush the base of the cake with jam and then place it
into the center of marzipan.
Now apply jam all over the cake surface and then fold the
marzipan up the sides and over the top of the cake. Press the
sides firmly to make sure that it sticks to the cake.
Apply cake decorative as needed or just make marks using
knife-edge to give decorative patterns.

In the end, dust the cake with caster sugar if desired, delicious
Battenberg Cake is now ready to serve.