7 January 2012

Recipe No.3 - Mary's Coffee and Walnut Battenberg

"This could be a match made in heaven" is what went through my head when I saw this recipe. I like Coffee and Walnut cake, I love Marzipan. Perfect!

First of all I had to have a bit of a brainstorm with my mum about what to cook this in as I don't have a special tin. I decided the best thing to do would be to cook the two different flavoured sponges in loaf tins and then trim the sponge like the recipe stated into the long rectangles. 

I adjusted the recipe for the sponge slightly, increasing it by 50% to allow for the larger tins. 


After the sponges cooled and I had trimmed them came the bit I was dreading...Sandwiching them with the coffee buttercream, manoeuvring the whole lot onto the rolled out marzipan and covering it. All while hoping that the end result resembled a Battenberg or at least a square.

Thankfully the process went without any problems and after trimming the ends to neaten it, I stood back and breathed a sigh of relief! 

I think it looks impressive and wasn't very time consuming, from start to finish it took about 2 hours including the cooling time. It was light, the coffee flavour wasn't too overpowering and there was a pleasant crunch from the walnuts -  I will definitely make this again - although I still have a lot of other recipes to try before that!  


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