Blog checking lines: Mandy of What The Fruitcake?! came to our rescue last minute to present us with the Battenberg Cake challenge! She highlighted Mary Berry’s techniques and recipes to allow us to create this unique little cake with ease.
This was the June challenge and also my husband's birthday cake. I was really excited about this one and put a lot of thought into it. My flavours were caramel butter cream icing, yellow cake, chocolate cake and chocolate plastique.
People loved this cake. I loved the icing and the chocolate cake but I wasn't wild about the plastique (should have splurged on the chocolate) and the yellow cake was good but not amazing. My biggest challenge was that my 9 month old was really, really needy while I made this and I ended up holding him for most of the prep and then coming back and forth to making it while I tended to him. Usually I really focus in on my baking so that made it a little more tough.
Despite that, and most importantly, I loved the concept and had so much fun with this cake! It was a great surprise for the guests to see the cake cut and notice the checker pattern.
