What is Battenberg cake?
[[File:Battenberg cake.jpg|alt=|thumb|A Battenberg cake]] '''Battenberg cake''' is a light [[sponge cake]]. It is long, square faced cake, covered in [[marzipan]]. 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 apricot [[jam]], 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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/battenbergcake_88569.shtml|title=Battenburg Cake recipe|publisher=[[BBC]]|first=Simon|last=Rimmer|access-date=2010-05-16|archive-date=2009-04-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090401171229/http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/battenbergcake_88569.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref> The cake was probably named in honour of the marriage, in 1884, of [[Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine]] [[Queen Victoria]]'s [[granddaughter]] to [[Prince Louis of Battenberg]], with the four squares representing the four Battenberg princes: [[Prince Louis of Battenberg|Louis]], [[Alexander, Prince of Bulgaria|Alexander]], [[Prince Henry of Battenberg|Henry]] and [[Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg|Francis Joseph]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-battenberg-cake.htm|title=What is Battenberg Cake?|publisher=Wise Geek|access-date=2008-04-30}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} == Other websites == {{Wiktionary|Battenberg cake}} *[http://bronmarshall.com/?p=99 A recipe for Battenberg cake] [[Category:Cakes]] {{Food-stub}}