Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, battenburg cake (gluten free) 🧈. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Battenburg Cake (gluten free) 🧈 is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Battenburg Cake (gluten free) 🧈 is something which I have loved my whole life.
A true showstopper, the Battenburg Cake, this one is gluten free, dairy free, egg free, soya free. But it's a favourite in my family plus those not freefrom. The ever popular Battenburg Cake is a bake that I made yonks ago, in fact, before I was Glutarama.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook battenburg cake (gluten free) 🧈 using 14 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Battenburg Cake (gluten free) 🧈:
- Make ready 175 g caster sugar
- Make ready 175 g butter
- Get 140 g gluten free self raising flour (I love doves farm)
- Make ready 50 g ground almonds
- Get 3 eggs
- Make ready 1/2 tsp baking powder
- Get 1/4 tsp xanthan gum
- Get 1 tsp vanilla essence
- Get 1/2 teaspoon almond essence
- Make ready Pink and yellow food colouring gel
- Make ready To assemble:
- Get 500 g golden marzipan (pre made or bought)
- Take 1 jar Apricot conserve
- Take Icing sugar for dusting counter
This fancy almond-flavored tea cake, also called 'Battenberg/Battenburg Cake' or 'Battenberg/Battenburg Square' features a homemade marzipan. Battenberg or Battenburg is a light sponge cake held together with jam. The cake is covered in marzipan and, when cut in cross section, displays a distinctive two-by-two check pattern alternately coloured pink and yellow. You also won't believe just how easy it is to make yourself which will add to the wow factor when you serve it up to friends and family.
Steps to make Battenburg Cake (gluten free) 🧈:
- Preheat the oven to 160c. Melt the butter in the microwave for 30 seconds until soft. Once softened, add to a large mixing bowl with the sugar. Whisk to a cream with an electric whisk for 2-3 mins.
- Add the almonds, eggs, baking powder, xanthan gum, vanilla essence and almond essence. Whisk with the electric whisk for 30 seconds to combine.
- Sift in the flour. Fold in with a metal spoon until a smooth mixture has formed.
- Split the mixture equally into two bowls. Add 3 small drops of colouring gel to each bowl and stir. Add more if you want darker colours. Gel works better than liquid colouring as it doesn’t affect the consistency of the cake mix.
- Distribute the mixture into two rectangular tins.
- If you don’t have a battenburg tin loaf tins work well, or use a square tin divided into two.
- Cook at 160c for 15-25 mins. Using long rectangular tins took 18 mins, but it will depend on the size of tin you use. Cook until the cakes start to brown on the top. Use a cake tester or end of a teaspoon to check it’s cooked through in the middle.
- Once fully cooled, use a sharp knife to slice the cake in half long ways.
- Microwave the apricot jam for 30 seconds until runny. Dust a large chopping board or worktop with icing sugar and use a rolling pin to roll out the marzipan so it it big enough to cover all 4 sides of the cake. Use a teaspoon to coat in a layer of jam.
- Carefully lift the cake slices into the centre of marzipan. Use the remaining jam as a glue to hold the segments together.
- Fold the marzipan over the cake. Flip the cake over so the join is at the bottom. Use a sharp knife to cut either end to make them neat. Serve and enjoy!
The best Battenburg cake - an English classic cake of fluffy checked sponge, sandwiched together with jam and wrapped in thick almond marzipan. I made this battenburg for Chris's birthday recently since I know it's one of his favourite cakes in the whole world, even more so than the Amaretti. This yummy and light sponge cake is a popular treat in England. When you slice open a Battenburg cake, the insides reveal a "checkerboard" pattern of alternating pink and yellow. It's a great party cake for all ages and a perfect afternoon tea treat.
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