Wednesday, 29 September 2010

Halloween Battyberg (get it, get it?!)


Ooh... inappropriate baking!
 I've always loved battenberg cake, it's delicious.  Even the supermarket version, slightly stale, sugary marzipan.  It's a gastronomic experience.   Since seeing a tin designed to create a homemade version I've been dying to give it a shot.  I know, you can do a fancy pleating thing with foil and a brownie pan, but I hate pleating foil and hoping for the best.  It doesn't suit my brand of kitchen ocd.


I'd love to say this counted towards the b2/m2 project, but it doesn't.   I just used the recipe that came with the tin (although adding copious amounts of orange and black food paste and a bit of cocoa to the black cake mix).  The pumpkins are honestly nursery school stuff, just a ball of marzipan, a bit of toothpick stabbing and a leaf cutter.  I'm not artistic! not at all, so if I can, you can too.

 Next time I might tint the marzipan for wrapping, just because the black colouring bled a little... but otherwise I'm delighted! lol.  This will definitely be featuring at our Halloween afternoon tea, but more on that later.


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